8 Shocking and Eye-opening Facts about Smoking

Believe it or not smoking and use of tobacco is a curse, not only
for the smoker but his family too. Smoking claims over 10,000
lives every hour round the world. Cigarette, Cigar, Water pipe
(Hookah or Shisha) are some of the major forms of smoking.
Why is smoking dangerous?
Cigarette, Cigar and all other forms of tobacco make the smoker addictive of tobacco and its very difficult to get rid of smoking once you are addicted
to it. A cigaretteor any form of tobacco has thousands of chemicals, poisons and side effects which we’ll explain below.

What’s in a Cigarette?
Some reports say there are about 4000 dangerous and harmful
chemicals in a cigarette while according to wikipedia , there may
be over 7000 chemicals in a cigarette. Majority of these chemicals
are toxic and over 50 of them can cause cancer. Some major
chemicals are given below:
Nicotine: Major cause of addiction towards smoking. Harmful to
heart, and causes blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases.
Tar: Another harmful chemical which produces from a burning
cigarette and it damages, lungs, teeth, gums and effects taste
buds.
Carbon Monoxide: It is a toxic gas which can be harmful to
humans when used in large amounts.
Urea: It is used to add some taste to the cigarette, but generally
urea is one of the major components found in urine.
Lead: It is a toxic chemical and is used in construction materials,
batteries and bullets. It can effect almost all the systems of
human body.
Benzene, Chromium, Ammonia, Acrolein, hydrogen cyanide,
sulphur dioxide, polonium and 70 other cancer causing chemicals
are present in a cigarette.

8 shocking and eye-opening facts about smoking
There are over 1.22 billion smokers in the world which
means about 16.5% the whole world population is addictive
to smoking.
Sugar is one of the major components added in a cigarette;
therefore for diabetic patients it is more dangerous and
harmful than any other person.
Heart attack, pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, mouth cancer,
strokes, high blood pressure and many other diseases are
gifted by smoking or chewing tobacco.
There is enough amount of nicotine in 5 cigarettes to kill a
human if it is chewed.
Smoking is not only harmful to smoker but to a second-hand
smoker too as the smoke itself has more than 50 chemicals
that causes cancer. A second-hand smoker can be your child,
wife, brother or friend.
Many people says, only cigarette is the one which can cause
damage to human body in different ways, but the fact is that
pipe, waterpipe, cigars, hand-made roller are also harmful.
Chewing Tobacco is another form of taking tobacco and is a
major cause of mouth cancer.
Another bad aspect of smoking is bad breathe, pale fingers
and teeth and a wrinkled face.
Tobacco Smoking is a gateway to other bad habits and drugs
as majority of the drugs are used through cigarettes.

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