Affects of Cigarettes Today, everyone knows that smoking cigarettes is bad for a person's health. Cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals, and 69 of those chemicals are known to cause cancer. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), about 440,000 people die per year from smoking, or smoke related reasons. Why would anyone willingly start smoking when they know it is very bad for his or her health? Yet, approximately 44 million people smoke in the United States. Each day nearly 4,000…
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