You own personal health:
- Increases the risk of lung cancer
- Increases the risk of emphysema
- Increases the risk of cardio-vascular disease
- Increases the risk of breast cancer
- Increases the risk of cancer of mouth, oesophagus and other forms of bronchial cancer
- Increases the risk of all forms of cancer not mentioned above
- Increases the risk of stroke
- Increases the risk of pneumonia
- Increases the risk of bronchitis
- Increases the risk of diseases of the eye (e.g. Graves' disease)
- Increases the risk of back complaints
- Increases the risk of ear complaints
- Increases the risk of vascular constriction
- Increases the risk of respiratory disease
- Affects breathing quality
- Affects the operation of the immune system
- Causes deteriation of general physical condition
- Increases the chance of impotence (erection problems)
- Increases the chance of infertility
- Reduces the capacity of the blood to take in oxygen
- Increases the risk of dental illness
The health of others you care about:
- Increases the chance of miscarriage or damage to the foetus
- Lower birth weight of children
- Lower mental capacity (IQ) of children
- Increased chance of SID (cot death) when the parents smoke
- Increased chance of other causes of infant death
- Affects the health of children
- Affects the health of others in the environment
- Sore eyes and eye diseases of others as a result of tobacco smoke
- Increases the chance of contamination during sexual contact (semen, fingers)
- Increases the chance of disease due to drinking contaminated breast milk
The quality of your life:
- Physical addiction
- Psychological addiction
- Social addiction
- Loss of sense of smell
- Loss of sense of taste
- Limitation of the possibility of maintaining a relationship
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