Dr. Ruth Carroll, DNP, RN
3 min readJan 20, 2020

Smoking: The Unspoken Effects

When people talk about smoking and the effects on people’s health, we always hear the same thing: lung cancer and heart problems. Quitting can be difficult and seem impossible at times. People don’t always talk about the everyday effects of smoking and here’s why: no one wants to speak the ugly truth because it might offend someone or be painfully true to them.