Smoking cigarettes
Each year, about 480,000 people die in the United States alone as a result of cigarette use, reports the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. As if that’s not enough proof of smoking’s hazardous harm to our bodies, a 2011 study found that smoking was the cause of nearly half of all liver cancers.
‘Smoking is horrific for the system in general because of the harmful chemicals and increase of oxidative stress in the system,’ says Dr. Neil-Sherwood. ‘This stress in the system can eventually reach the liver causing not just liver cell damage but entire system cellular damage.’
