The combination of smoking and birth control pills is very detrimental to your heart and can lead to many heart related complications. It is an established fact that if you have been smoking and at the same time consuming contraceptive pills for a long time, the risks of heart attacks increase manifold.
The more you smoke; more vulnerable you are to heart attacks. The risk factor also increases with your age. It has been observed that smoking women over 35 years are more vulnerable to heart stroke than smoking women below 35 years of age. For women who are heavy smokers and are using birth control pills regularly, they are prone to many other problems. They can suffer from blood clotting. Many women have also developed high blood pressure due to this combination of smoking and consuming control pills. Here again, with increase in age, this problem intensifies.
Not only does smoking lead to heart diseases but many other problems. Heavy smokers find it difficult to conceive. It leads to irreversible damages and complications arise at the time of pregnancy. It can also damage the fetus and can result in still birth or child with some deformities.
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