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How Smoking Affects Your Health
What's the link between smoking and heart attacks? A person’s risk of heart attack greatly increases with the number of cigarettes he or she smokes. There is no safe amount of smoking. Smokers continue to increase their risk of heart attack the longer they smoke. People who smoke a pack of cigarettes a day have more than twice the risk of heart attack than nonsmokers do.
How does tobacco smoke affect cholesterol? Tobacco smoke is one of the six major risk factors of heart disease that you can change or treat. Smoking lowers HDL cholesterol levels and increases the tendency for blood to clot.
How does smoking affect blood pressure? Some of the effects of smoking on the heart and blood vessels can be detected almost immediately after a person starts to smoke a cigarette. Blood pressure increases when a person smokes a cigarette. These increases are temporary, but since most smokers smoke cigarettes several times a day, they occur often and may play a role in long-term problems. |
