It’s a strange occurrence that in the last couple of years, several smoker’s rights organizations have risen up to claim that there aren’t really that many negative health effects from smoking. Many state that lung cancer is simply a disease of old age, just like all the other cancers that are connected with smoking.

So what then is actually hype and what is truth with regards to this habit, and especially, what’s been shown to be the real health effects of smoking?

Simply speaking, with each and every new study and each new research paper that comes out, there is increasingly more bad news when it comes to the health effects of smoking. As researchers, biologist, and physicians discover more about the human body and are able to trace smoking’s consequences more clearly, they discover more about its harm.

Whilst lung cancer continues to be the prime concern for most when it concerns the health effects of smoking, in reality, many cancers have been traced to this habit, which includes bladder cancer, throat cancer, cancer of the larynx, liver cancer, cancer of the tongue and other parts of the mouth, cancer of the large intestine, and even blood cancer or leukemia.

Moreover, smoking works to dry out the arteries around the heart, causing this muscle to work that much harder to carry out its job. One of the clear health effects of smoking is repeated heart attacks, heart disease, and other ailments of the vascular system. Numerous cases of heart disease and heart attacks happen in non-smokers that can be traced back to secondhand smoke or passive smoking, or of just living in a really smoky environment.

Of course cancer isn’t the only disease of the lung that is a health effect of smoking. Bronchitis, asthma, chronic sore throat, chronic cough with sputum, pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and just about any other ailment that one can get in the respiratory system is somehow associated with smoking.

Incredibly, infertility is also caused by smoking, for both men and women. A man’s sperm count can be affected by his smoking, as can his sperm mobility. A woman’s ovulation is also affected by smoking. In either case, conceiving may be that much more difficult if one or both smoke.

So the final point here is that there are a large number of health effects of smoking, and none of them are good. It’s not hype; it’s indisputable fact that smoking does absolutely nothing but damage your health and the health of those around you.

If your trying to quit smoking I can highly recommend Allen Carr’s book ‘Easy Way to Stop Smoking’ It’s available in the USA from Amazon.com and in the UK from Amazon.co.uk