What are the health dangers from tobacco (both cigarettes and cigars), alcohol, and drug abuse? What are some?

7 Responses to What are the health dangers from tobacco (both cigarettes and cigars), alcohol, and drug abuse? What are some?

1. Meenamae says:

   October 9, 2009 at 7:41 am

   For the latter, caffine and sugar, the inability to slow down for a while and then, CRASH! For tobacco, drugs, and alcohol, death.
2. i have no idea says:

   October 11, 2009 at 12:40 am

   Lung cancer, emphysema.
3. Sapient says:

   October 13, 2009 at 2:55 pm

   Geez, this is like 6 questions rolled into one. Do you really expect someone to do all that research and typing for you? Search in the search engine and educate yourself!!
4. science_of_chess says:

   October 16, 2009 at 3:18 am

   cancer, memory loss, tooth decay, quick aging, death, coma
5. find_mobius says:

   October 19, 2009 at 12:46 pm

   Your question is much too general to respond to here, but it’s not hard to find the information you’re looking for using Google.

   Inhaling smoke into the lungs, no matter the substance, has adverse effects on one’s health. The incomplete combustion produced by burning plant material, like tobacco or cannabis, produces carbon monoxide, which impairs the ability of blood to carry oxygen when inhaled into the lungs. There are several other poisons in tobacco that constitute serious health hazards to long-term smokers from a whole range of causes; lung cancer, heart attacks, strokes, impotence, low birth weight of infants born by smoking mothers.

   Depending on the actual compound, drug abuse may lead to health problems, social problems, physical dependence, or psychological addiction.

   Use of these drugs may lead to criminal penalty in addition to possible physical, social, and psychological harm, both strongly depending on local jurisdiction

   Some drugs that are subject to abuse have central nervous system (CNS) effects, which produce changes in mood, levels of awareness or perceptions and sensations. Most of these drugs also alter systems other than the CNS. But, not all centrally acting drugs are subject to abuse, which suggests that altering consciousness is not sufficient for a drug to have abuse potential. Among drugs that are abused, some appear to be more likely to lead to uncontrolled use than others, suggesting a possible hierarchy of drug-induced effects relative to abuse potential.
6. medicine_man_rn says:

   October 22, 2009 at 1:28 pm

   tobacco will cause stained teeth, bad breath, lung capacity will be reduced, might lead to emphysema or cancer.

   Alcohol will cause liver damage, increased bleeding time, also danger of causing stroke.

   Caffeine is addictive, and has a with draw of causing headaches if you don’t use any.
7. mike d says:

   October 24, 2009 at 4:14 am

   tobacco smoking – chronic obstructive pulmonary disease like bronchitis and emphysema, frequent upper respiratory or lung infections, lung cancer(it has increased along with cigarette use), blood clots, decreased healing ability.
   alcohol – hepatitis(yes alcohol is a poisen and your liver is the bodies detox unit), kidney disease and so on.
   drug abuse – some drugs like amphetimines can give you an arrhythmia and kill you in one shot or one drug like acid doesn’t have a dose that will actually kill you.
   caffeine – constricts your blood vessels, increases your heart rate.
   sugar – gives you energy to metabolize to do drugs )