Cancers Chronic Diseases

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Lung
Aortic rupture
Leukemia
Heart disease
Pneumonia
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Pancreas
Chronic lung disease
Colon & asthma

Reduced fertility
Bladder
Hip fracture

Smoking can cause cancer almost anywhere in your body.

Quitting and Reduced Risks

Quitting smoking cuts cardiovascular risks. Just 1 year after quitting
smoking, your risk for a heart attack drops sharply.

Within 2 to 5 years after quitting smoking, your risk for stroke could fall to
about the same as a nonsmoker's.

If you quit smoking, your risks for cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus,
and bladder drop by half within 5 years.

SMOKING
Ten years after you quit smoking, your risk for lung cancer drops by half.

Tobacco use can lead to tobacco/nicotine dependence and serious health

problems. Quitting smoking greatly reduces the risk of developing smoking-
related diseases.

Tobacco/nicotine dependence is a condition that often requires repeated

treatments, but there are helpful treatments and resources for quitting.
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Smoking by women during pregnancy increases the risk for SIDS.

Breathing secondhand smoke interferes with the normal functioning of
Infants who are exposed to secondhand smoke after birth are also at
the heart, blood, and vascular systems in ways that increase the risk
greater risk for SIDS.
of having a heart attack. Even brief exposure to secondhand smoke can
damage the lining of blood vessels and cause your blood platelets to Parents can help protect their babies from SIDS by taking the following
become stickier. These changes can cause a deadly heart attack. three actions:
Do not smoke when pregnant.
People who already have heart disease are at especially high risk of
Do not smoke in the home or around the baby.
suffering adverse effects from breathing secondhand smoke and should Put the baby down to sleep on its back.
take special precautions to avoid even brief exposures. Secondhand Smoke Harms Children