Is every cigarette really doing you damage?
Is every cigarette really doing you damage?
I strongly believe that every single cigarette you smoke is doing you damage because of its dangerous effects and sicknesses. Every year 1 in 13 smokers get lung cancer and 5.4 million people die from smoking.
Firstly, one of the reason smoking does you damage, is the amount of toxins and fumes that enter your body are devastatingly dangerous, amount of deaths from smoking is horrific millions of people die each year, more than 18,000 Australians die prematurely because of smoking, that’s about 50 people a day. It is the ninth most common cause of death in the world and the most common cause of lung cancer. Every cigarette you smoke your risk of getting lung cancer increases to roughly 50 to 100 percent. Your risk of getting heart disease increases roughly to 100 percent for each pack of cigarettes you smoke per day. All the cigarette packs you smoke each year costs a smoker over $2000 if you didn’t smoke you could be saving hundreds of dollars. A smoker is at twice the risk of dying before age sixty-five as a non-smoker.
Furthermore, the amount of toxins and fumes that enter your body are devastatingly dangerous. Cigarette smoke contains over 3,000 chemicals. Most of them contain chemicals such as: * Nicotine - used in cockroach and other insect killing products * Formaldehyde – used as a fluid to embalm dead bodies. * Hydrogen cyanide – rat poison * Acetone – dissolves certain substances and commonly found in nail polish removers * Hydrazine – used in rocket fuel * Tar – sticky and brown and stains teeth, fingernails and lung tissue. Contains the carcinogen benzo(a)pyrene that is known to trigger cancer * Radioactive compounds – tobacco smoke contains radioactive compounds, which are known to be carcinogenic.
These chemicals enter your lungs and produce chemical injury to the tissues of your lungs and the airways leading to the lungs. This makes you more vulnerable to colds, flu, bronchitis, and other respiratory infections. And if you do come down with an infection, your body will be less able to fight it, because smoking lessens the ability of the white blood cells to resist invading organisms.
