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Frequently asked question: Why is smoking so bad?

When you have diabetes, high blood sugar level puts your blood vessels at greater risk for problems to occur. When you are smoking, your blood vessels are put under additional stress. The chemical constituents in the tobacco smoke are narrowing your vessels, which will also have a negative impact on your heart. So, in the long term, you will have a higher risk of high blood pressure, atherosclerosis narrowing of the blood vessels and a heart attack. Diabetics who smoke are also more likely to become impotent; sometimes this can happen already at the age of 25 years.

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