why are we told not to do exercises such as weight lifting and can high blood pressure kill someone?

Question: why are we told not to do exercises such as weight lifting and can high blood pressure kill someone?
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Asked by misslunz to Kat, Andrew, Katie, Sadaf on 18 Jun 2013.
- Andrew Swale answered on 18 Jun 2013:
  
  Young people are usually advised not to take part in weight lifting as it can affect your growth as you are still developing
  
  As for high blood pressure causing death – usually what happens is that high blood pressure (or hypertension as it is also known) results in other conditions such as stroke, heart attack etc and it is these that kill someone

Question: why are we told not to do exercises such as weight lifting and can high blood pressure kill someone?