or to relieve stress. Major diseases caused by smoking We all know smoking is bad for our health. Most people know that smoking can cause lung cancer‚ but it can also cause many other cancers and illnesses. Smoking directly causes over 100‚000 deaths in the UK each year and contributes too many more. Of these deaths‚ about 42‚800 are from smoking-related cancers‚ 30‚600 from cardiovascular disease and 29‚100 die slowly from emphysema and other chronic lung diseases. Cigarettes contain more than
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Identify Preliminary Issues The National Heart‚ Lung‚ and Blood Institute defines asthma as being a chronic disease centered in the lungs of the individual that harms by agitating and contracting the airways leading to the lungs in that person (The National Heart‚ Lung‚ and Blood Institute‚ 2014). Being a chronic disease‚ that is‚ persisting for a long periods of times which makes asthma an impediment disease to fully cure. Well-known to affect children the most‚ asthma tends to weigh as a heavy burden
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the mouth and throat Heart disease Memory Loss with the passage of time. Premature Aging Premature death Low Sperm Count Emphysema COPD Wrinkles Let’s examine a few of these effects in detail: COPD: A lot of people think lung cancer is the biggest issue when it comes to the effects of smoking but COPD is more rampant (and poorer in diagnosis).But then‚what is COPD? Wikipedia says‚ COPD stands for Chronic obstructive Pulmonary Disease and “is the co-occurrence of chronic bronchitis and emphysema‚ a
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Asthma Asthma is a lung disease that makes breathing difficult for millions of Americans‚ both young and old. There is no cure for asthma‚ but the good news is it can be managed and treated so you can live a normal‚ healthy life. (http://www.lung.org/lung-disease/asthma/) Asthma is characterized by recurrent episodes of wheezing‚ shortness of breath‚ chest tightness‚ and coughing. Sputum may be produced from the lung by coughing but is often hard to bring up. During recovery from an attack
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790.29 Borderline Diabetes Mellitus 401.9 Hypertension 414.00 Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease Principal Procedure None Total Charges $3‚794.25 DRG _0192‚ CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE W/O CC/MCC ___________ DRG Wt. __00.7120____ Full Update Hospital Reimbursement__$3‚578.58____ Reduced Update Hospital Reimbursement__$3‚364.98___ Medicare Assigned DRG : 0192‚ CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE W/O CC/MCC MDC : 04‚ DRG Weight = 00.7120‚ GLOS = 002.8‚ ALOS = 003.3 Estimated Medicare
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Emphysema is known as a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)‚ which gradually damages the alveoli‚ also known as air sacs‚ in the lungs. The damage to the air sacs‚ makes it difficult to breath‚ because the body does not get all the oxygen to function properly. According to the article‚ Emphysema‚ when a person has the disease‚ "the inner walls of the air sacs weaken and eventually rupture — creating one larger air space instead of many small ones... this reduces the surface area of the lungs
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Melinda ENC 1101 4/September/2011 Freedom from smoking Smoking cigarettes was one of the worst if not the worst habit I ever had I am finally free from smoking. I started smoking cigarettes at the very young age of fifteen. I did it because everybody else was doing it. I thought it was the cool thing to do. I was a kid who just wanted to fit in. I remember how that first cigarette tasted. It was a menthol cigarette and it was
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disadvantage of having a habit and how much money you invest in smoking once you are addicted. Smoking can lead to lung cancer and chronic lung problems‚ such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease‚ which can lead to a lower quality of life and death. It is the number one preventable cause of death. Smoking can lead to other organ damage‚ cadiovascular disease‚ other cancers and a host of health issues. Smoking causes one in five deaths and nine out of 10 cancer deaths according to the American
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Dangers of Cigarettes According to John Chukurah‚ “The main health risks in tobacco pertain to diseases of the cardiovascular system‚ in particular myocardial infarction (heart attack)‚ cardiovascular disease‚ diseases of the respiratory tract such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)‚ asthma‚ emphysema‚ and cancer” (42). Smoking may lead to many unpleasant outcomes such as heart disease‚ throat cancer‚ and lung cancer. Cancer is one of the common hazards of smoking. Cancer tends to
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for the other and lead to the misdiagnosis and treatments that are associated with each respiratory disease. If one has never been faced with the reality of living with either of these diseases knowing what to look for is something that is not easy. While asthma and COPD are both similar respiratory defects‚ COPD is often misdiagnosed asthma and goes untreated. Asthma is a chronic inflammatory of the airways. The inflammation of the airways is usually associated with constant wheezing
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