Cigarettes Addiction Facts

How detrimental to you health, is smoking ~5 cigarettes a month?
Apart from the obvious risk of addiction and potential to increase the amount you smoke, what are the risks/potential health effects, compared to smoking, say, 5 a day?



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Matt
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker
Smoking any cigarette does damage to your lung and organs, however... Here are some facts for ya.

Within 20 minutes of your last cigarette, your blood pressure and pulse return to normal. Within eight hours, the carbon monoxide and oxygen levels in your blood return to normal. After 48 hours, your senses of smell and taste return to that of a non-smoker. Your lung capacity improves within 72 hours as you bronchial tubes begin to relax.

And if you are quitting the addiction: your circulation and lung function improve within two weeks to three months after you quit. As the cilia in your bronchial tubes regrow you will be able to clear your lungs easier and reduce the number of infections in your lungs. This process begins within one to nine months. At five years, your lung cancer death rate decreases from 137 per 100,000 people to 72 per 100,000 and drops to 12 per 100,000 after 10 years. This rate is similar to that of nonsmokers.



So, with just 5 cigarettes a month, you can still develop lung cancer, but, for the most part you will have the overall health of a non-smoker.



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