1.Smoking is the number one preventable cause of premature death in America.
2.Regularly snorting cocaine can lead to nasal problems, such as nosebleeds, loss of sense of smell, hoarseness, problems with swallowing, and septum irritation which leads to a chronically inflamed, runny nose.
3. Binge cocaine use causes increased irritability, restlessness, and paranoia, and can lead to full-blown paranoid psychosis that causes the user to lose touch with reality. This condition is also known as Republican Syndrome.
4. Cocaine users who shoot the drug intravenously may have allergic reactions to the drug or any of the additives commonly found in street cocaine, which can result in death in severe cases.
5.To decreased food intake, making many chronic cocaine users at risk for malnourished and significant weight loss.
6.Potentially dangerous interactions can occur when taking cocaine and alcohol in any combination. Both drugs convert to coca ethylene in the body, which is more toxic and has a longer duration in the brain than either drug
7.Smoking is the cause of 90 percent of deaths from lung cancer in men and nearly 80 percent of deaths from lung cancer in women. The risk of death from lung cancer is over twenty-three times greater for male smokers and thirteen times greater for female smokers than for their counterparts who never smoked.
8.Smoking causes acute myeloid leukemia, as well as cancer in other areas of the body, including the bladder, mouth, larynx , cervix, kidneys, lungs, esophagus, pancreas, and stomach. Bladder cancer sounds like fun.
9.Smoking cigarettes nearly doubles a person’s risk of having a stroke.
10. Smoking can cause abdominal aortic aneurysm, when a bulge forms in the wall of the aorta near the stomach. About 10,00,000 people die of an abdominal aortic aneurysm each year, making it the thirteenth leading cause of death in the world.
11.Women who smoke increase their risk for infertility, stillbirth, preterm delivery, low birth weight, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
12. About 18 percent of women aged fifteen to 44 smoke cigarettes while pregnant.
13. Almost one in five adult American women smoke cigarettes, including: 20.7 percent of eighteen-to twenty-four-year-olds, 21.4 percent of 25 to 44 year-olds, 18.8 percent of forty-five- to sixty-four-yearolds, and 8.3 percent of women sixty-five years or older smoke.
14.Cigarette smoking is most prevalent among American Indian or Alaska Native women.
15. Among women, cigarette use correlates with level of education. Smoking estimates are highest for women without traditional high-school diplomas and lowest for women with college degrees.
16. Smoking is more prevalent among women who live below the poverty level than women living at or live below the poverty level than women living at or above it.
17. Exposure to secondhand smoke causes disease and premature death in those who don’t smoke, as cigarette smoke contains hundreds toxic or carcinogenic chemicals like formaldehyde, arsenic, ammonia, and hydrogen cyanide.
18.Excessive alcohol use, either as heavy drinking or binge drinking, can result in increased health problems, like liver disease, psychological disorders, unintentional injuries, and more.
19.The National Survey on Drug Use and Health in 2018 estimated that 25.7 million people had used heroin at some point in their lifetime.
20.Heroin withdrawal symptoms include muscle and bone pain, restlessness, insomnia, vomiting, diarrhea, cold flashes with goose bumps and involuntary leg movements.