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A diagram of the human body showing cancers and chronic diseases caused by smoking. Tobacco products, especially when smoked or used orally, have serious negative effects on human health. [1] [2] Smoking and smokeless tobacco use is the single greatest cause of preventable death globally. [3]
Bushy top. Tobacco vein distorting virus and tobacco bushy top virus in combination. Cucumber mosaic. Cucumber mosaic virus. Lettuce necrotic yellows. Lettuce necrotic yellows virus (in Nicotiana glutinosa ) Peanut stunt. Peanut stunt virus. Rosette disease.
A tobacco pipe, often called simply a pipe, is a device specifically made to smoke tobacco. It comprises a chamber (the bowl) for the tobacco from which a thin hollow stem (shank) emerges, ending in a mouthpiece. [1] Pipes can range from very simple machine-made briar models to highly prized hand-made artisanal implements made by renowned ...
Pipe smoking is the practice of tasting (or, less commonly, inhaling) the smoke produced by burning a substance, most commonly tobacco or cannabis, in a pipe. It is the oldest traditional form of smoking. Regular pipe smoking is known to carry serious health risks including increased danger of various forms of cancer as well as pulmonary and ...
Source: Linus Bohman, Flickr. The reason to encourage smokers to quit is much more than "it's just bad for you"; scientifically and economically it's been shown that smoking can affect our friends ...
The most commonly used tobacco product is cigarettes, but all forms of tobacco use and e-cigarette use can cause dependence. [7] [8] Nicotine dependence is a serious public health problem because it leads to continued tobacco use, which is one of the leading preventable causes of death worldwide, causing more than 8 million deaths per year. [7]
This article provides a list of autoimmune diseases. These conditions, where the body's immune system mistakenly attacks its own cells, affect a range of organs and systems within the body. Each disorder is listed with the primary organ or body part that it affects and the associated autoantibodies that are typically found in people diagnosed ...
This is a list of major and frequently observed neurological disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), symptoms (e.g., back pain), signs (e.g., aphasia) and syndromes (e.g., Aicardi syndrome). There is disagreement over the definitions and criteria used to delineate various disorders and whether some of these conditions should be classified as ...