Smoking is Cancerous

Hundreds of researchers worldwide have confirmed the presence of carcinogenic chemicals in cigarettes or tobacco. With over 4,000 chemicals in each cigarette and at least 50 of those chemicals known to cause cancer, smoking is one of the most likely ways to get cancer and shorten your life.

The chemicals accumulate over time and there is no good way to eliminate them from the body. Cigarette smoke contains benzene- a gasoline additive, arsenic - rat poison, formaldehyde - embalming fluid, ammonia - toilet cleaner, acetone - nail polish and many other harmful chemicals. Would you intake them voluntarily if they weren't in a cigarette?

Cigarette Smoking Causes Illnesses

Some of the health issues and diseases that cigarette smoking can cause or play a large part in are heart attacks, hypertension, brain damage, chronic obtrusive pulmonary disease (COPD), Reynards Disease, circulation problems that can lead to loss of limbs, cancers such as larynx cancer, mouth cancer, lung cancer, and pancreatic cancer.

Smoking Causes Addiction

Cigarette smoke contains nicotine, a drug that has an adverse effect on your central nervous system, brain, and other organs of the body. Puffing a cigarette allows nicotine to enter the body and cross over into the brain. During a strenuous and stressful event, a person smokes to feel relaxed. This is the job of nicotine, to make the smoker feel comfortable and reduce anxiety. There is a part of the brain that is pleasure-related and nicotine stimulates this area to make the person feel relaxed. Over time, you can become dependent on smoking to relieve stress. This is due to the fact that the body is craving for the nicotine, a habit that leads to an addiction to smoking that is difficult to end.

Cigarette Smoking Can Kill

Statistics show that millions of people die every year around the world due to diseases acquired from smoking - up to 80,000 in the UK alone. The common deadly diseases responsible for killing thousands of smokers are lung cancers and heart diseases.

Effects Of Secondhand Smoke

Secondhand smoke, the smoke coming from the end of the burning cigarette is also called side stream smoke or for those breathing it in passive smoking. Mainstream smoke is what a smoker inhales. Over half of the smoke is not inhaled by a smoker so over half is there in the air around a smoker for non smokers to breathe in.

Secondhand smoke also contains thousands of harmful chemicals that when inhaled by those around a smoker will have adverse effects on health. The common compounds in mainstream smoke are arsenic, ammonia, and hydrogen cyanide. Arsenic compounds are an essential ingredient found in rat poison while ammonia is found in dry cleaning products. Hydrogen cyanide is so hazardous that it has been used to formulate gas chamber poisons.

The 5 reasons given should be good enough for any of us to stop smoking. They show that the benefits from cigarette smoking are just superficial and only for a short term effect. They also show that there are too many health threats caused by smoking to you and those around you.