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Smoking affects your body by: raising your blood pressure and heart rate lowering oxygen levels in your blood reducing blood flow to your heart and brain increasing the risk of blood clots damaging your arteries weakening the walls of your arteries, increasing the risk of an aneurysm (bulging blood vessel) harming your lungs and making breathing harder increasing the risk of chronic lung disease, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) increasing the risk of poor blood flow to your legs lowering good cholesterol and raising triglycerides
Cigarettes contain harmful and addictive chemicals including tar, carbon monoxide and nicotine