Bronchitis

to use. As a result of using tobacco you can have many health effects that will only get worse as you keep using tobacco. Some of these health effects include cancer, heart disease, blindness, asthma, diabetes, strokes, pneumonia, arthritis, bronchitis, pregnancy problems, effects to newborns, more frequent and more severe colds, coughs, and flus. Using tobacco can also hurt your teeth as well as yellow them and give you bad breath. But worst of all using tobacco can lead to death. Above all,…

Respiratory Disease? When an impairment of the respiratory system occurs, as with a worsening of asthma symptoms, bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis, or chronic bronchitis, the major determination of the impairment is contingent on the frequency and intensity of episodes that occur despite treatments. An attack of asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis, or hemoptysis (more than bloody sputum), or respiratory failure are considered episodic if it lasts one or more days and requires intensive treatment like…

and has been diagnosed with COPD (a grouping of both chronic bronchitis and emphysema); Emphysema is injury to the alveoli which are the tiny sacs in the lungs that permit oxygen and carbon dioxide to interchange between the blood stream. This produces huge air spaces that are distributed throughout both of the lungs. This occurs without fibrosis (scarring) and causes the lungs to be hyper inflated (over distended). Chronic bronchitis is chronic inflammation of the bronchial walls; this…

A gateway drug is a drug that could lead a person to using dangerous and more addicting drugs. The three types of gateway drugs are tobacco, alcohol and marijuana. They all are dangerous and highly addictive. Tobacco is depressant which contions nicotine, a colorless, odorless drug that is very addictive. Alcohol is also a depressant and it slows down the nervous system. Marijuana is a mind changing drug. All three are dangerous, therefore, everyone should stay away from using gateway drugs.…

Banning cigarette smoking has been a topic of dicussion for so many years and still is today. So many people don 't realize the negative effect cigarettes have on the human body and yet it is still legal. Many people that inhale the harmful toxic from the cigarette you are proned to illnesses. Smoking cigarettes cause death, diseases/health issues, your appearance changes and it also effects pregnant women. Smoking cigarettes should be banned. There has been a dramatic change in cigarettes over…

(2010) define COPD as, “…a lung disease characterized by chronic obstruction of lung airflow that interferes with normal breathing and is not fully reversible.” COPD as a lung disease encompasses pathological changes such as Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema. Chronic Bronchitis is long term inflammation of the main bronchi, which instigates coughing mucus over a long length of time (John Hopkins Medicine, n.d.). The main physiological reason for this pathological change is due to the acidity and…

Respiratory illnesses refer at range of diseases that affect the respiratory system such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Tuberculosis, asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, acute respiratory infections among others. Several additional respiratory conditions and respiratory hazards, including infectious agents and occupational and environmental exposures, are covered in other areas of Healthy People 2020. The symptoms for these diseases range from mild to severe that sometimes cause death in…

Using vape and e-cigarettes is widely seen as a terrible thing and for the most part can be. This invention was first used to stop smoking the combustible traditional cigarette. If this object was used for its original intention it would’ve been a very good thing. However, because it looks so much like the traditional form it was given a bad name. It was seen as the same thing as a traditional after all of the studies came back and said that they all have the same chemicals. This is true to an…

COPD is consider a syndrome of airway inflammation, mucociliary dysfunction, and changes to the structure of a persons airway. It is characterized by poorly reversible airflow obstruction and an abnormal inflammatory response in the lungs (MacNee, 2006). In many peer research articles, the articles have addressed the diagnosis and assessments of people with COPD, as well as the pharmacological and the non-pharmacological management of stable disease and exacerbations. Chronic obstructive…

Did you know that cigarettes are responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States. 53,800 of those deaths are from secondhand smoke exposure alone. This is about 1,300 deaths a day, this number is growing at an alarming rate. Did you know that on average people who smoke die 10 years earlier than people who do not smoke. So the question is should cigarettes be banned, in my personal opinion they should be, because they not only kill the person smoking them, but also the…