Diseases caused by smoking

Smoking verifiably contributes to development of 25 serious illnesses.

Smoking significantly contributes to lung cancer, esophagus cancer, laryngeal cancer, pharyngeal cancer, mouth and tongue cancer, cancer of urinary bladder, pancreas, kidney, colorectal cancer, leukemia, hepatocellular carcinoma (particularly when combined with alcohohol consumption) and cervical cancer.

Smokers have significantly bigger fertility problems.

Pregnant women who smoke have babies with lower birth weight (by 250 grams in average). Over 50 % of all deaths caused by sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) are due to mother´s smoking!

Most often, smokers prematurely die of cardiovascular disorders and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.