Smoking causes serious health problems,Tobacco smoke is enormously harmful to your health. There’s no safe way to smoke.According to the National Cancer Institute, cigars have a higher level of carcinogens, toxins, and tar than cigarettes.
Smoking will give you a full body makeover – in a bad way – as it affects every part of you both inside and out. These may happen straight away and others may take longer to occur. Check out some of the effects of smoking on the body below.
Long-term smokers are also at increased risk of lung cancer.About 9 out of 10 lung cancers are caused by smoking, either directly or through passive smoking.
Smoking damages your blood vessels and increases your risk of heart disease and stroke. for example, you may notice you often have cold hands and feet, which is a result of not enough blood getting to them.
Smoking causes other health problems.
It can cause poor blood flow to the arms and legs.
Women who smoke,they have a higher risk for broken bones than women who do not smoke.
Second hand smoke is dangerous.
Did you know that when you are around someone who is
smoking, you are probably breathing in smoke? This is
known as ‘second hand smoking’.
In many country have laws that prohibit
smoking in workplaces, public places, restaurants and
bars. Breathing in second hand smoke can make you sick.
Some of the diseases that second hand smoke cause
can kill you.
However, millions of children and adults still
breathe in second hand smoke in their homes, cars,
some workplaces and in public places.
When people smoke they not only damage their own health and people around smoker, they also damage the environment.
Cigarettes are made from the dried leaves of the tobacco
plant.
Nearly 5 million hectares (600
million trees) of forest are destroyed each year to provide
trees to dry tobacco.
Each time you smoke a cigarette, chemicals are released into the atmosphere, polluting the air.
When it rains, cigarette butts lying in our streets and gutters are washed in to our harbours, beaches and rivers. The chemicals in these butts and the butts themselves impact on our water quality and can be deadly to our marine life (Clean up Australia).
Cigarette butts have been found in the stomachs of young birds, sea turtles and other marine creatures (Clean up Australia).
In the United States, the mortality rate for smokers is three times that of people who never smoked, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s one of the leading causes of preventable death.
A lot less than you might think?
Almost 93% of young people aged 12 to 17 years are not current smokers**
The number of current smokers aged 12 to 17 years has decreased significantly over time falling from 19% in 1999, to 7.3% in 2008**
73% of young people aged 12 to 17 years have never smoked**
In 2005, smoking rates were much higher. approximately 22% of young people aged 13 to 17 years being current smokers.
Nicotine is the addictive substance in tobacco that causes smokers to continue their smoking habit.
These chemicals harm nearly every organ in the body.
Even if you don't smoke you can still get sick from these poisonous chemicals just by breathing in other people's smoke.
And cigarettes damage the environment.The best way to preserve environmental is to stop buying cigarette