What are the dangers of smoking for men?

It is not difficult to find that there are always many men around us who like to smoke. Sometimes they always feel that smoking can relieve some pressure at work and make themselves relax effectively. In fact, smoking has a particularly great impact on health, especially for men. Sometimes smoking can also reduce sperm quality, so male friends must pay attention to it. In addition, smoking is also particularly prone to cause some upper respiratory tract diseases. Let’s take a look at the dangers of men smoking.

What are the dangers of smoking for men?

1. Smoking causes blood clots and various heart diseases

Inhaling carbon monoxide in cigarettes reduces the blood's ability to absorb oxygen. Nicotine can accelerate the heartbeat, increase blood pressure, weaken the heart's tolerance, myocardial hypoxia, cause coronary artery infarction, and local ischemia (or heart pain) of the heart promotes the accumulation of arteriosclerosis, and many heart diseases begin to occur.

Between the ages of 30 and 49, smokers are five times more likely to have a heart attack than non-smokers. People who quit smoking find that their risk of a heart attack drops by half after a year.

2. Damage to the brain caused by smoking

Smoking can cause a variety of brain diseases. It reduces the oxygen and blood circulating in the brain, causing bleeding and blockage of blood vessels in the brain, leading to paralysis, mental decline and stroke. The cause of stroke is that smoking causes spasms of blood vessels in the brain, making blood easier to clot. Smokers are twice as likely to have a stroke as non-smokers.

3. Damage of smoking to the oral cavity

Smoking can cause oral cancer and laryngeal cancer. The tar in cigarettes and the heat of smoke can inflame the salivary glands, damage the taste buds, and greatly weaken the ability to taste and smell. Then, it is easy to cause oral cancer. About 2/3 of patients can still survive with difficulty after being diagnosed with oral cancer. At the same time, smoke can increase the temperature in the throat from 37°C to 42°C, causing micro-burns of the mucous membrane inside and producing chronic thermal trauma, which eventually leads to laryngeal cancer.

4. Damage to the Lungs from Smoking

Smoking can cause the bronchial epithelial cells to become shorter and irregular, and their movement to become impaired, reducing local resistance and making them more susceptible to infection. Smoking can cause lung cancer. 90% of the total mortality rate is caused by smoking. Early symptoms will not be detected until the cancerous cells spread to the blood vessels and other organs. Smoking can also cause emphysema. The toxic substances accumulated in the bronchi of the lungs will prevent the normal exhalation of the air inhaled by the human body, causing the lung cells to swell or burst, resulting in difficulty breathing for the patient.

5. Damage to the stomach caused by smoking

For those who suffer from gastrointestinal diseases, smoking can make them worse. For those who suffer from gastric ulcers or duodenal ulcers, the healing of the ulcers will be slowed down, and may even develop into chronic diseases. Smoking can stimulate the nervous system, accelerate the secretion of saliva and gastric juice, and make the gastrointestinal tract tense all the time, causing smokers to lose their appetite. In addition, nicotine can cause the blood vessels of the gastrointestinal mucosa to contract, which can also reduce appetite.

6. The damage of smoking to bones throughout the body

Nicotine causes blood vessels to constrict, reducing the amount of blood flowing to new bone. Carbon monoxide inhaled when smoking also reduces the rate of oxygen entering the body. Smoking can cause pelvic inflammation and back pain. Most people with severe back pain are heavy smokers. This is because smoking reduces blood flow to the disc, causing the disc to degenerate prematurely. Smoking can cause arthritis. Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day will increase the risk of disease by 50%. Smoking causes faster bone loss. Smoking interferes with estrogen, which is an important hormone for bone development.

7. Damage to the liver caused by smoking

Smoking increases the burden on the liver. Frequent smoking affects the lipid metabolism of the liver, increases the fat in the blood, reduces good cholesterol and increases bad cholesterol. This increases the burden on the liver's detoxification function.

8. Damage to the intestines caused by smoking

Smoking causes colon cancer. The chance of developing this cancer is proportional to the amount of tobacco smoked. Studies have shown that although stopping smoking can reduce the chance of other diseases such as heart disease and lung cancer, the risk of developing colon cancer is still very high.

The above is an introduction to the dangers of smoking for men. After understanding it, I hope that everyone will pay attention to it. Try to avoid smoking as much as possible or even not smoke at all. Long-term smoking is also particularly likely to cause coughing and lung diseases. It will also bring some harm to people around you, especially secondhand smoke. The harm is particularly great. So for the health of yourself and your family, try to reduce smoking as much as possible.