These ulcers can lead to postprandial pain (pain after eating), maladaptive eating behaviours, narrowing (strictures) that require endoscopic dilation or surgical revision, or in severe cases, bleeding, perforation, and emergency surgery (laparotomy)
You might be surprised by the actual effect of cigarettes on your body every time you smoke one
Smoking has been identified as a risk factor for reproductive problems including fetal deaths and stillbirths, impaired fertility, low birthweight and complications of pregnancy

Prevalence of tobacco use, legal awareness and control attitudes among healthcare students, professionals and staff: a multicentric study in India Bijit Biswas, Saurabh Varshney, G Jahnavi, Venkata Lakshmi Narasimha, Santanu Nath, Vinayagamoorthy Venugopal, Sudip Bhattacharya, Arshad Ayub, Benazir Alam, Ujjwal Kumar, Niwedita Jha, Sweta Suman, Rahul Chandra, Navin Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, Geetika Singh, Animesh Gupta, Madhupriya, Soni Rani, Arun Kumar Pandey, Vikash Chandra Mishra, Arpita Rai, Amit Vasant Mahuli, Anit Kujur, Sanjay Kumar, Nidhi Prasad, Jarina Begum, Swati Shikha, Abhishek Kumar, Deependra Kumar Rai, Pramod Kumar, Shibajee Debbarma, Minti Kumari, Rachna Raj, Anil Raj, Randhir Kumar, Sravanthi Malempati, Vijay Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, Sri Krishna, Ankur Bhargava, Nishad Gawali, Tulika Singh, Prachi Priya, Arun Kumar, Neha Chaudhary, Lovely Kumari, Ravi Prakash, BS Suma, Nirmala Kumari, Shailendra Kumar, Nikhil Nishant, Qamrul Khan, Mayank Raj, Dhananjay Kumar, Chandramani Kumar, Rakhi Kumari, Rishabh Kumar Rana, Ravi Ranjan Jha, UK Ojha, Mukesh Kumar, Mrinal Ranjan Srivastava, Pragyan Das, Prakash Ranjan, Sukesh Kumar, Vikrant Kumar Singh, Kashif Shahnawaz, Birendra Kumar, Ganesh Kumar, Naveen Kumar, Aman Kishor, Rajnish Kumar, Abhay Simba, Arjun Choudhary, Bishnu Deo Goel Journal of Public Health 15

Additionally, most studies focus on individual factors, such as hypoxemia or inflammation, without a comprehensive analysis of how these factors interact