Smoking and Amputation

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Recently, I viewed television advertisements intended to discourage smoking. The advertisements show pictures of people with stunted or partly amputated fingers as well as pictures of prosthetic devices.

Does cigarette smoking cause loss of parts of fingers and legs? How?

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[+3] - tsarstepan - 01/10/2010[quote][b]The difference between car mufflers and cigarettes? Nothing.[/b] Every time a person inhales cigarette smoke, a chain reaction takes place: blood vessels constrict, heart rate and blood...

@gollum,

Smoking reduces circulation. So does age. When being seen for sore feet, my Grandma's doctor told her to choose between her cigarettes and her feet.

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The difference between car mufflers and cigarettes? Nothing.
Every time a person inhales cigarette smoke, a chain reaction takes place: blood vessels constrict, heart rate and blood pressure increase, and oxygen in the blood is partially replaced with carbon monoxide.

Carbon monoxide, the same poisonous gas that makes automobile fumes dangerous, is the carcinogen that passes through the lungs and into the blood, reducing its oxygen content. The poor circulation that results causes problems all through the body.

Carbon monoxide also robs the body of oxygen for several hours. Smoking for 10 minutes decreases oxygen in the tissues for almost one hour, "consequently, a pack-a-day smoker would remain hypoxic (oxygen deficient) for most of each day," says Adelaide Hebert, MD, and professor in dermatology at UT Medical School.

http://www.healthleader.uthouston.edu/archive/101/2004/smoking-0617.html

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