Doctor’s Tip: Heart disease and other adverse effects of smoking

Doctor’s Tip: Heart disease and other adverse effects of smoking

This is the final column in a series on the major causes of heart disease. For years smoking was the major preventable cause of death in the U.S. Now, unhealthy eating is, but smoking is number two. About 14% of American men and 11% of women still smoke. Tobacco smoke contains over 5,000 identified chemicals, so it’s not surprising that it has many adverse health effects. Humans have been smoking for thousands of years, but it wasn’t until the 1…