Tobacco use is a problem that society has faced for thousands of years, yet only now are we able to see the broader medical implications of this habit. Recent advancements in modern medicine have given us many opportunities to understand the bigger picture of tobacco use's effects on the body. Sonography has proven to be one of these opportunities to expand our knowledge of how chronic smoking changes the body and, while ultrasound is a relatively new technology, it has proven very promising in the bigger picture of medical imaging and diagnostics as a whole. This brings up the question of how we can use ultrasound technology to continue to better understand the adverse health effects of smoking? What can we do with the information we get from these tests and where does it fit into the broader picture of patient treatment? Finally, what are the limitations of using this technology under the context of detecting damage caused to the body by chronic tobacco use? These questions are important to ask ourselves if we want to best understand how to use sonography to our advantage and what we will be examining in this paper.
Keywords: Smoking, Cardiovascular damage, sonography, chronic tobacco use

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