Smoking cigarettes increases blood pressure. Considering this, what can smoking do to the following?

Question

1. heart beat rate

2. bore of the arteries

3. capillary beds in the fingers and the toes

4. resistance of blood flow through the lungs

Answer 1

Smoking cigarettes affect your heart by clogging arteries making your heart work harder and this increases blood pressure.  All the vessels throughout your body get clogged and when it cloggs your brain, you get a stroke.  Your lungs get clogged with tar from the cigaretts and over time you get liver damage, then your liver generates more cholesteral and cloggs more arteries.