Tobacco Smoke Cause Early Lung Damage

Cigarette smoke can cause premature damage to the lungs and the DNA so that the administration of President Barack Obama will prioritize efforts to stop smoking, federal health officials said Thursday.
Activities smoking not only hurts the smoker but also those around them. All the taxes, prohibitions and treatment must be run together to help reduce the amount of smoking, says U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin in his report on the activities of smoking.
"These chemicals in tobacco smoke reaches your lungs quickly each time you inhale, causing premature damage," said Benjamin and added, even with small amounts of cigarette tobacco smoke can damage DNA, causing cancer.
The report in general surgery networking also said tobacco companies have deliberately designed a number of cigarettes and other tobacco products to be both addictive and they have launched a new tobacco product that allegedly more secure but in fact are harmful and addictive nature.
Benjamin said, a third person who ever tried cigarettes will become heavy smokers.
"Over the last two years, we have been working to reduce tobacco use, including implementing the laws that regulate tobacco products, to finance the efforts of local tobacco regulation and expand access to tobacco cessation equity security," said Minister of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius.
"It's still the main key of our government," he added.
The report notes that research has shown smoking killed 443,000 people each year in the United States that one of every five people died from cancer, heart disease, lung disease and other causes.
"The economic burden tobacco use was recorded at more than 193 billion dollars per year consisting of medical costs and productivity losses," said Sebelius.
"More than 1,000 people died every day from smoking and one-half of all long-term smokers killed by diseases caused by smoking," added the report.
Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention USA (CDC), Dr. Thomas Frieden, and the Government Council on Food and Drugs, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, said the study was also produced by reducing the activity of smoking.
"The biggest impact comes when we raise the price of tobacco, banning smoking in public action, offering smoking cessation treatments are easily available and affordable, and combine media campaigns and other efforts," they said in their report.
The CDC estimates that about 23 percent of American adults and 17 percent of high school students in the country are smokers.

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