Is inhaling incense smoke bad for you?

Is it bad for my mother to smoke cigars every day? She is inhaling smoke a lot and feeling dizzy lately...?

• My mom is 50 years old heavy chain-smoking woman for years. She is on her 3 packs a day habit with no intense to quit or cut it down. She is smoking for about 25 years, and she is always with a ciggie in her mouth smoking like a chimney and every day she smokes more and more. She also likes to smoke two cigs at once saying that she really needs to smoke more to feel good. In a recent years she started to smoke cigars on a daily purpose, she is really deeply inhaling them and says that she likes big smoke that fills her inside. She has a female friends about her age, who also smokes a lot and when they come to our house it is smoke everywhere i'm almost out of breath. And my mom changed a lot. She looks older than she is, she got wrinkles on her face too early, she has a yellow tar stained teeth and very bad breath, she is always coughing a lot and constantly out of breath, sometimes i noticed that she is feeling dizzy, but she says she is ok and that she needs to smoke.Is it problem?

• Answer:

  The smoke is certainly bad for her health, but you cant make her quit - thats her own choice. Coughing and short of breath are probably from the smoking. Dizziness could be from the smoke or could be a bp issue or an issue with not having a balanced diet.