Smoking is also the leading cause of cancer. Experts say forty percent of cancers could be prevented by avoiding health risks like smoking and tobacco use.
Smoking also causes forty-two percent of cases of chronic respiratory disease, including asthma, bronchitis and emphysema. And, it causes ten percent of cardiovascular diseases, like heart disease and stroke.
FAITH LAPIDUS: The medical research community is continually reporting reasons why smokers should stop. A recent study found that people who smoke are nearly two times as likely as non-smokers to develop Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s weakens or destroys memory and reasoning.
In the study, researchers examined forty-three published studies about the link between Alzheimer’s disease and smoking. They found that smoking increased the risk of Alzheimer’s developing by one and seven-tenths percent. The researchers work at the University of California in San Francisco. Their findings were published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
In an earlier study, seven thousand people were observed for an average of seven years. Each person was fifty-five years or older. Those who smoked were fifty percent more likely to develop memory loss than those who never smoked, or who had quit.
BOB DOUGHTY: Other research has linked smoking to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. ALS is a deadly disease affecting the motor nerves and the voluntary muscles. Last year, a study in the medical journal Neurology found smoking to be an established risk factor in developing the disease. Some of the evidence even suggested smoking may be directly responsible for ALS.
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