Risks from smoking

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Office on Smoking and Health. ; National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Office on Smoking and Health.
• Description:
  Smoking Can Damage Every Part of the Body
  
  Cancers
  
  • Oropharynx
  
  • Larynx
  
  • Esophagus
  
  • Trachea, bronchus, and lung
  
  • Acute myeloid leukemia
  
  • Stomach
  
  • Liver
  
  • Pancreas
  
  • Kidney and ureter
  
  • Cervix
  
  • Bladder
  
  • Colorectal
  
  Chronic Diseases
  
  • Stroke
  
  • Blindness, cataracts, age-related macular degeneration*
  
  • Congenital defects-maternal smoking: orofacial clefts*
  
  • Periodontitis
  
  • Aortic aneurysm, early abdominal aortic atherosclerosis in young adults
  
  • Coronary heart disease
  
  • Pneumonia
  
  • Atherosclerotic peripheral vascular disease
  
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, tuberculosis,* asthma, and other respiratory effects
  
  • Diabetes*
  
  • Reproductive effects in women (including reduced fertility)
  
  • Hip fractures
  
  • Ectopic pregnancy*
  
  • Male sexual function-erectile dysfunction*
  
  • Rheumatoid arthritis*
  
  • Immune function*
  
  • Overall diminished health
  
  Each condition presented in bold text and followed by an asterisk (*) is a new disease causally linked to smoking in the 2014 Surgeon General’s Report, The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress.
  
  Publication date from document properties--created: 1/30/14; modified: 5/9/17
  
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• Subjects:
  Smoking
• Document Type:
  Poster
• Genre:
  Infographic ; Infographic
• Pages in Document:
  1 infographic
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:927c6d9cdb17798859f29cb050cffa99b705cc6bcfec15deb1f600105e76ab0e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/45784/cdc_45784_DS1.pdf
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