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[The impact of smoking on diseases of the genitourinary system].

Authors: Marcin, Zyczkowski; Rafal, Bogacki; Andrzej, Paradysz;

[The impact of smoking on diseases of the genitourinary system].

Abstract

The fight against smoking is now one of the priorities of the health system. This habit is one of the most serious threats of the modern world, both for health as also socioeconomic reasons. Smoking has a harmful proven action on the human body, causing cardiovascular, digestive or neurological diseases. Tobacco smoke contains more than 40 carcinogenic substances, thus is considered to be one of the major risk factors for cancer diseases. The threat of tobacco, is even more alarming, when we look at the number of people affected by this addiction. In Poland is addicted 27.2% of the citizens and what more staggering also one third of young people age 19 is smoking. In the urological matter, smoking is a issue in the etiology of cancer diseases of the kidneys and bladder. New publications are showing thattabacoo smoking has a prolonged risk in developing bladder cancer. More data also suggests that it is a riskfactorfor developing cancer of the prostate gland. Smoking also affects negatively the sexuality and male fertility.

Keywords

Male, Incidence, Smoking, Prostatic Neoplasms, Comorbidity, Kidney Neoplasms, Urinary Bladder Neoplasms, Risk Factors, Humans, Poland, Infertility, Male

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