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'''Smoking''' is the practice of purposefully inhaling [[smoke]] from burning materials, typically a dried plant such as [[tobacco]]. The most common form today is [[cigarette]] smoking. While smoking has been a habit of many ancient and modern men, it fell out of favor due to association with various cancers - especially [[lung cancer]].
'''Smoking''' is the practice of purposefully inhaling [[smoke]] from burning materials, typically a dried plant such as [[tobacco]]. The most common form today is [[cigarette]] smoking. While smoking has been a habit of many ancient and modern men, it fell out of favor due to association with various cancers - especially [[lung cancer]].
== Negative Effects ==
There are various negative effects of smoking. Every 15 cigarettes someone smokes will cause a mutation in their body, and mutations are how cancers start. The poisons from the tar in cigarettes enter the smoker's blood, making the blood thicker, and increase chances of clot formation. It also increases the blood pressure and heart rate, making their heart work harder than normal and narrows the arteries, reducing the amount of oxygen-rich blood circulating to your organs. Smoking doubles one's risk of having a heart attack, and those who smoke you have twice the risk of dying from coronary heart disease than lifetime non-smoker. <ref>https://www.nhs.uk/smokefree/why-quit/smoking-health-problems</ref> Smoking harms the immune system and can affect nearly every organ of the body. <ref>https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/effects_cig_smoking/</ref>
== Other Smoking Methods ==
Bidis and hookahs have become popular alternatives to smoking cigarettes, and people seem to think they are less harmful than regular cigarettes. However, the truth is that hookah smoke still delivers addictive nicotine, and bidis actually have more nicotine than cigarettes. <ref>https://abovetheinfluence.com/drugs/tobacco-nicotine/</ref>
== Smoking and cancer ==
== Smoking and cancer ==