More than 25% of the people in the world smoke, but smoking is addictive and leads to dangerous diseases. Smoking leaves you breathless due to the dangerous diseases, Emphysema. Heart Problems is another diseases that might affect your body severely. Bad teeth and bad breath causes you to lose a family, job, and most importantly respect.

Smoking has been known as the most common cause of Emphysema. When a person has Emphysema, his lungs cannot let the oxygen out and the carbon level increases in the human body. This deadly disease slowly takes away a person's ability to breathe. Emphysema eventually leads to lung cancer. In lung cancer, a person's lungs are badly damaged and they might need to have a lung transplant. Some of the symptoms of Emphysema are coughing, getting tired easily and the inability to play or exercise. Smoking a pack or two of cigarettes, every day, will cost a person his lungs, which would be damaged after a couple of years. Some people even have to make a throat operation (making a hole in the throat) to be able to breathe properly. A smoker has a very low level of oxygen compared to a non-smoker. When Emphysema reaches its advanced stage, it is very difficult for a person to breathe and causes the person to suffocate. Emphysema starts with coughing and eventually leads to DEATH!

Smoking causes more than half of the percent of heart attacks. Women generally tend to have greater risk of heart attacks than men do. A heart attack occurs when the heart stops pumping blood back to all the other parts of the body due to low level of oxygen. Smoking also introduces the human body to carbon monoxide, the gas that goes in when a smoker smokes. Smoking has been known to reduce your heartbeats per second. Smoker differs from a regular man in about 2 to 3 heartbeats more per minute. Some of the symptoms that alert people of heart attacks are pain in the heart, having a tight chest and the person starts having shortness of breath. People might also experience sweating and vomiting; they do not feel comfortable either. Smoking can also increase the risk of second heart attacks in the survivors. There is only one cure for heart attack, STOP SMOKING! It is also true that quitting smoking gradually decreases the risk of heart attacks but does not completely remove the bad effects to the smoker's heart.

Bad teeth and bad breath leave a horrible impression on others. It is very irritating for a non-smoker to talk face-to-face with a smoker,

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