Consequences of smoking at teenage-hood
Consequences of smoking at teenage-hood
By Josephine Gikaru
Smoking among the youth is on the rise. The younger you are when you start smoking the more damage it is likely to cause. Youths who start smoking while they are younger than 21 years are most likely to do so throughout their adulthood while it causes heart disease and stroke.
Short-term health consequences of smoking among the young people include respiratory and non respiratory infections, addiction to nicotine; Smoking reduces the rate of lung growth.
Cigarettes leave smokers with a condition called halitosis, or persistent bad breath.
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The smell of stale smoke tends to linger not just on people’s clothing, but on their hair, furniture, and cars. And it’s often hard to get the smell of smoke out.
Smoking affects the body’s ability to produce collagen, so common sports injuries, such as damage to tendons and ligaments will heal more slowly in smokers than nonsmokers.
Smoking hurts young people’s physical fitness in terms of both performance and endurance even among young people trained in competitive running. Commonly, someone who smokes a pack or more of cigarettes each day lives Seven years less than someone who never smoked.
The resting heart rates of young adult smokers are two to three beats per minute which is faster than nonsmokers.
Most young smokers suffer from shortness of breath almost three times as often as teens who don’t smoke.
The risk of most smoking related cancers rises as the individual continues to smoke. It increases the risk of lung cancer.
Young smokers are more likely to have seen a doctor or other health professionals for an emotional or psychological complaint.
Most young smokers are three times more likely than nonsmokers to use other drugs such as alcohol, marijuana and cocaine. Smoking is associated with other risky behaviors such as unprotected sex, violence, crime among others.
