5B How Smoking Can Effect Ordinary People's Lives

Wang 3 Do you think smoking is cool? Well, I'm sorry to say this, but it's not! When you smoke it damages your body and especially your lungs. There are many diseases when you smoke such as COPD ...

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"Cardiovascular disease is caused by narrowed, blocked or stiffened blood vessels that prevent your heart, brain or other parts of your body from receiving enough blood. Cardiovascular disease symp...

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"Breathlessness or being short of breath (called dyspnea) is the most significant symptom, but it does not usually occur until the sixth decade of life (in people aged 50-59 years)." http://www.e...

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Lung cancer is also most commonly found in people who smoke, and it is very difficult to recognize the disease since it already started. http://www.lung-cancer.com/symptoms.html pg.1

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Well done, Jason!

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A symptom for lung cancer is coughing up blood that looks bubbly instead of like when you are bleeding; it doesn't look that way because it mixed up with air and mucus. ...

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In the 1930's, lung cancer wasn't so common, but within a couple of decades, lung cancer sky-rocketed from not so much to a whole lot. http://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/guide/lung-cancer-statistics ...

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A sign for COPD is called barrel chest which is when your chest epands, and it also makes the diaphragm go downward. Stanley J. Swierzewski, III, M.D. pg.1

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"Lung cancer is the most common cause of death due to cancer in both men and women throughout the world." http://www.medicinenet.com/lung_canc...

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There are many different kinds of heart disease, but the most commom heart disease in the US is coronary artery disease; it can also lead to heart attacks. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/heart-d...

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"In general, symptoms of COPD don't appear until significant lung damage has occurred, and they usually worsen over time. People with COPD are also likely to experience episodes called exacerbation...

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COPD (also known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), a disease that causes short breaths while getting worse over time, is caused by smoking. http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Di...

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