Smokers risk amputation, warns expert

A blockage in any one of the two femoral arteries supplying blood to the lower limbs results in reduced blood supply to the lower limbs which coukld result in amputation.

8221;There needs to be a mass awareness which should go down to the community level8221;, Dr Sharma said.

World renowned cardiologist Dr Virendra S Mathur in an exclusive interview to UNI, quipped that smoking is so lethal that if you want to kill your enemy, the mission could be accomplished by handing him a pack ofcigarettes.

The increase in the number of college goers who have take up smoking as a fad, is an alarming trend, he said. This, coupled with sedentary life-styles has become the primary causes for the large numbers of heart attacks and heart-related diseases.