An Adverse Effects of Tobacco Smoking

on Reproduction and Health

Introduction

Definitions of Smoking

Tobacco smoking consist of drawing into the mouth, and usually the lungs, smoke from burning
tobacco. The type of product smoked is most commonly cigarettes, but can also include pipes or
water pipes, ‘Smokeless’ tobacco is also popular in some parts of the world. This typically
involves using tobacco preparations for chewing, sniffing into the nose and or placing the as a
wad in the mouth between the cheeks and gums. Smokeless tobacco use features that are similar
to smoking and can carry significant health risks, however this article focuses on smoked
tobacco only as this has been the subject of by far the largest volume of research and is the most
harmful form of tobacco use.

Stopping smoking usually involves an intention not to smoke any more cigarettes from a
given point in time. If someone making a quit attempt smokes one or more cigarettes on an
occasion but then resumes this is termed as ‘lapse’. If this person resumes smoking on a regular
base she or he is said to have ‘relapsed. ‘Short-term’ abstinence often refers to abstinence for at
least achieving up to 4 weeks but ‘Long-term abstinence’ often refers to abstinence for at least 6
months but more typically involves abstinence fir at least 12 months.

Definition of Tobacco Smoking

Tobacco smoking is about the direct inhalation of tobacco smoke, the basis of major health
hazards. Long known to cause cancer in humans, tobacco smoking is generally held to be the
leading preventable cause of cancer in developed countries.

Types of Tobacco use

There are two main types of tobacco smoking one is ‘Smokeless tobacco’ and other one is
‘Smoking tobacco’.

Smokeless Tobacco

Smokeless tobacco is usually consumed orally or nasally, without burning combustion. There
are two main types of smokeless tobacco: Snuff and chewing tobacco.

Smoking Tobacco
Smoking tobacco is the act of burning dried or cured leaves of the tobacco plant and inhaling
the smoke.

Smoking tobacco includes many smoking thing and these are as follows;

Cigars or Pipes

Contrary to popular opinion, smoking cigars or pipes is no less harmful to health than smoking
cigarettes.
The truth is that one cigar on average has more nicotine and tar than a pack of cigarettes and one large
size cigar has 40 times the nicotine and tar found in one cigarette. The concentrated toxic substances
and carcinogens in cigars means that regular cigar smoking is harmful, even in a  small amount.  Also,
the number of people who die from mouth, throat or esophagus cancers due to  cigar smoking is ten
times higher than those who do not smoke.

Shishas or Hookahs and Moussals

   

It is commonly thought that smoking shisha and hookah can be less harmful than cigarettes, but the
truth is that one shisha is equivalent to 50 to 60 cigarettes, and a two hour to three hour session of
smoking a shisha is equivalent to smoking 25 cigarettes.

There are several types of shisha that differ in shape and content, but its harmful effects are the same.
One type is “mouassal” which is molasses tobacco, another is “jrak” which is tobacco added to a group
of rotten fruits and the sweetened shisha which contains tobacco and specials kinds of fruits like apricot.
All of these contain fermented material.

Smoking shisha is a leading cause of lip, mouth and throat cancer. It also leads to lung, esophagus,
stomach and bladder cancer.  Smoking shisha can also be responsible for the spread of tuberculosis
microbes that cause tuberculosis and help spread it between smokers who share the same shisha pipe,
and it can . This can also spread to non-smokers who come in contact with smokers. Shisha are also a
minimal source of air pollution as they spread smoke and toxic gases like carbon monoxide and are
contaminated with pesticides, heavy metals and mycotoxins.