Smoking greatly increases the chance of getting heart disease. Tobacco use will make such problems as high cholesterol or high blood pressure even worse. Cancer Tobacco use is linked to many cancers, including cancer of the lung, mouth, throat, bladder, kidneys, and stomach. The average smoker is 10 times more likely to get lung cancer than a non-smoker. Smoking is the main cause of lung cancer.
Ulcers are also more likely to cause death in smokers.
In spite of warnings about the health risks, young women are still smoking in alarming numbers. Every 35 minutes a Canadian woman dies as a result of smoking. Tobacco advertising shows smoking as a stylish, sexy, independent and a way to control weight by using beautiful, slim, healthy-looking models. But, these misleading ads sell a deadly product that causes special health problems for women. Lung cancer is overtaking breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer death among women.