Here are the lists of diseases you can get from smoking:
Cardiovascular disease - Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death due to smoking. Hardening of the arteries is a process that develops over years, when cholesterol and other fats deposit in the arteries, leaving them narrow, blocked or rigid. When the arteries narrow (atherosclerosis), blood clots are likely to form.
Cancer - Smokers are more likely to get cancer than non-smokers. This is particularly true of lung cancer, throat cancer and mouth cancer, which hardly ever affect non-smokers.
COPD - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a collective term for a group of conditions that block airflow and make breathing more difficult.
Impotency - For men in their 30s and 40s, smoking increases the risk of erectile dysfunction (ED) by about 50 per cent.
It is well known that smoking is dangerous for your body and overall health. But what diseases can you get from smoking? Smoking adversely affects the entire body, but it is most damaging to the respiratory system and especially the lungs.
The damage smoking causes starts with the first puff you take and worsens and worsens as you continue smoking until the damage becomes permanent. Once you have reached that level then you may be faced with the deadliest disease that smoking can cause: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or COPD.
Here are some basic facts and figures about COPD. Worldwide COPD was ranked sixth as the cause of death in 1990 and is expected to be the third by 2020. It is reported that 80 to 90% of COPD cases are due to smoking so it can best be prevented by not smoking quitting smoking soon after you start.
COPD is actually a combination of two diseases: chronic bronchitis and emphysema. COPD is a disease that makes it very hard to breath. COPD also causes chronic coughing and thick mucus to form in the lungs. As COPD worsens the COPD sufferer often loses their breath while performing simple chores and often needs to be put on oxygen to get a proper amount of oxygen to their lungs. As the COPD worsens a patient experiences periods where symptoms worsen, called exacerbations, that can range from mild to life threatening.