How
smoking is harmful to your health?
Lung diseases caused by smoking include COPD, which
includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Cigarette smoking causes most
cases of lung cancer. If you have asthma, tobacco smoke can trigger an
attack or make an attack worse. Smokers are 12 to 13 times more likely
to die from COPD than nonsmokers.
How smoking can affect
you?
Smoking
and Respiratory Disease. Smoking can cause lung disease by
damaging your airways and the small air sacs (alveoli) found in your
lungs. Lung diseases caused by smoking include COPD, which includes
emphysema and chronic bronchitis. ... If you have asthma, tobacco smoke
can trigger an attack or make an attack worse.
