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American doctors have expanded the list of diseases provoked by smoking. It includes blindness, diabetes of the second type, colon and liver cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and erectile dysfunction. Modern cigarettes are even more likely to than before, can lead to lung cancer and other diseases, says the report of the acting chief sanitary US physician Boris Lushnyak. “Now smokers are threatened by even greater the risk of developing lung cancer than when in 1964 the first report of the chief medical officer was published, although now people smoke fewer cigarettes, “the document says words of Lushnyak. A report published on Friday expanded the list. diseases provoked by smoking. So according to the latter research, smoking can also cause a form of blindness known like age-related macular degeneration, diabetes, colon cancer and liver cancer. In addition, heavy smokers are threatened with tuberculosis, impotence, rheumatoid arthritis and a weakened immune system. At passive smokers increase the likelihood of a stroke, noted in the report. Lushnyak noted that in 2014 from nearly half a million people die of smoking-related diseases. Every day, over 3,200 people smoke their first cigarette. Besides In addition, the US Chief Medical Officer said, new trends, emerging in recent years in the culture of smoking, such as electronic cigarettes create a dangerous illusion that it could be safe for health. If nothing changes, then 5.6 million today’s children and adolescents will die in adulthood from diseases caused by smoking, warned Lushnyak. For today approximately 18% of people smoke in the USA in the day, while in 1964, when a similar report was first made, the number of smokers reached 42%. For comparison, in Russia, according to Rospotrebnadzor, over 60% of men and over 20% of women smoke. According to him, from tobacco 400 thousand people die in the country annually. Last year in Russia anti-tobacco law has earned. Ministry of Health hopes implementation of all measures contained in the law will allow in the long term to reduce smoking by 40 – 50%, and also reduce mortality from related diseases for 150 – 200 thousand per year.
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