a picture of a tobacco plant plants - Stock Image - E768/0225 Ashes to Ashes: Tobacco's Journey

1 Other respiratory diseases that are caused or worsened by smoking cigarettes include: Lower oxygen to the heart and other tissues in the body, which can increase the risk for coronary artery disease, peripheral artery disease and diabetes

By doing so we can help all our patients to reduce their risk but even more importantly we need to raise awareness and educate the general public about the impact tobacco on our hearts and crucially the importance of children and young people never starting

In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Plant 29(4):207212

Aging Neurosci

Reducing smoking among people with mental illness is identified as the single most effective action for reducing the gap in life expectancy