HEART DISEASE
The American Heart Association lists smoking as one of the six major independent risk factors for coronary heart disease, the others being diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, physical inactivity, and obesity.
DEGENERATIVE DISC DISEASE
Researchers who followed 1337 doctors who graduated from John Hopkins University between 1948 and 1964, found out that smokers, as well as those with coronary artery disease and hypertension were more likely to have degenerative disc disease. Since smoking, coronary artery disease, and hypertension are also associated with atherosclerosis (blockage of the arteries), the researchers theorize that atherosclerosis causes degenerative disc disease.
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