Question

1. Compare and contrast aging and disease. How do the effects of cigarette smoking on the body illustrate the difficulty of distinguishing aging from disease?

Answer 1

Aging is normal physiological process where as disease is a pathological process.

Aging not required treatment where as disease required treatment.

The disease associated with aging according to individual difference. However normal aging as a a way to affect the incidence of disease as aging deteriorated physiological function. Like wise aging deteriorated social and psychological function due to financial loss and loss if support system (spouse) causes illness.

Aging and smoking causes tobacco related disease. Incidence of disease due to smoking increase with age and duration of smoking. Although cardiovascular disease is most common causes of mortality in younger age and lung cancer causes mortality in older age.