Blood pressure and smoking?
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Smoking causes vasoconstriction (narrowing of the blood vessels), so your blood pressure would increase. It also causes paralysis of the hairs in your lungs that sweep secretions out. That's why smokers have a nasty cough sometimes. Like with any smoke inhalation (house fires, etc...), smoking increases the amount of carbon monoxide in your blood, from 1 - 3% to around 10%. In addition, as with smoking meat, smoking cigarette damages the tissues it is in contact with, leading to emphysema in the long term and progressive airway obstruction. After about 10 years of smoking 1 pack a day, you can expect to have some degree of airway obstruction. This can be assessed by breathing tests called spirometry.
Absolutely.
Does smoking cause hypertension? That's debatable-but has been determined to be a contributing factor.
But if a person is already suffering from this disease the best thing for them to do is to put down those cancer sticks..as people who smoke are more likely to suffer from a stroke
and/or a heart attack.
yes coz smoking speeds up the development of a dangerous form of it (malignant hypertension) and increases your risk of developing cardiovascular.
Smoking restricts your blood vessels which impaires blood flow and can cause higher blood pressure. I have a yahoo group/website with extensive files, links and news which should answer any question you might have about smoking and quitting....Feel free to check it out if you like.
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