Diseases Caused by Smoking will be Graphically Depicted on Packs

(NaturalNews) Smoking is a habit associated with numerous diseases, and the labels on cigarettes will soon more accurately reflect this. Obama recently signed a measure that might update warnings on cigarette packs to stronger and more accurate messages, like Smoking Causes Cancer and Smoking Kills. Graphic images of cancers and other diseases caused by smoking will be on the packages as well; they will be required to be on half of the pack when the measure takes effect.

News reports are calling the images to be used "gruesome," and their purpose is to detour people from starting the disease-creating habit and encourage them to quit smoking if they've already started.

But what's really gruesome is that twenty percent of the population legally uses a widely available product that creates such disease in the body. Are artists' graphic images really that gruesome? Or are the actual diseases in real bodies? Most would agree that it's the actual diseases, although we are visually spared the gore of many diseases in the body because our skin covers them from view.

The truth is, you just have to look at all of the diseases caused by smoking to understand a whole lot more about the causes of disease in general.

Smoking is known to cause heart disease, cancers that can be anywhere in the body, lung diseases, breathing problems, sexual dysfunction, clogged and blocked arteries to the point where limps may be amputated, infertility, wrinkling, birth defects, and many more.

So, what is it about smoking that causes so many diseases?

Most people will answer that it's the chemicals in the cigarettes that are the culprit, and they would be correct. There are almost 600 known toxic chemicals allowed in cigarettes, and 4,000 dangerous chemical compounds in the smoke. And the problems above, the diseases caused by smoking, are exactly what you get when you have large amounts of toxic chemicals trapped inside the body. Because while the body can detoxify itself, it can't do anywhere near the job that is required when it's being so actively polluted.

No one really doubts that all of the chemicals taken into the body from smoking cigarettes regularly cause disease and problems. Rather, it's seen as a fundamental and obvious fact. But many still don't get that even if you don't smoke, you're still bombarded by many chemicals in the world today.

Toxic, man-made chemicals are omnipresent in most diets, personal care products and lifestyles, and they are largely unavoidable in our environment. As a society, we're also bombarded with health problems. However, you'd think we'd be a little faster to make the connection.