Smoking Kills!!!

           There are many smokers in the world, even a child ages 9 and up are engaging into smoking. Most people are aware of the damage that smoking does to their body, few are aware of the effects that smoking has on the environment. Below are a few of the major ways the cigarettes and production of tobacco harm the environment that we live in.

          

Effecrs to our Environment

Air Pollution- Around 4,000 chemicals used in manufactured cigarettes are released into the air when a cigarette is burned, and to a lesser extent when a smoker exhales.

Water Pollution-Cigarette butts and filters easily make their way into streams, rivers and lakes where they can clog water intakes and pollute water as they degrade. Additionally, the toxins from cigarette butts can leach into groundwater.

Litter and Soil DegredationIn 2007, the number one waste found in community beach sweeps in the United States was cigarette butts. Those butts leach toxins into the soil, and are mistaken as food by birds.

Pesticides and TobaccoTobacco is one of the largest cash crops in the United States and ranks sixth among all agriculture for the amount of pesticides applied per acre. These pesticides end up in soil and water, and all 13 major pesticides used on tobacco have been shown to have some adverse affects on humans and animals.

Smoking and FireCigarettes and careless smoking are the number one cause of forest and home fires. Forest and home fires release a lot of pollution into the atmosphere each year, including plant toxins and dioxins from burning plastic products.

 Health Issues

                    There are many harmful effects of smoking in our health, so be aware of those effects that will just lead your life to death, so that you will have a healthy living

                     

                     Quitting makes sense for many reasons but simply put in your mind: smoking is bad for your health and it will kill you!!!

Harmful Effects of Smoking

• Every year hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from diseases caused by smoking cigarettes - Smoking KILLS.
  
• One in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age.
  
• Tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of cancers.
  

• The mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels.
  
• This can cause heart attacks and stroke. It slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers end up having their limbs
  amputated.
  
• Tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer. A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.
  
• Changing to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeper puffs and hold the smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs.
  
• Carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body and especially your heart work harder. Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into your lungs.
  
• Smoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. The strain of smoking effects on the body often causes years of suffering. Emphysema is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.
  
• Lung cancer from smoking is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke. Men who smoke are ten times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers.
  
• Heart disease and strokes are also more common among smokers than non-smokers.
  
• Smoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels which leads to heart attack.
  
• Smoking causes around one in five deaths from heart disease.
  
• In younger people, three out of four deaths from heart disease are due to smoking.
  
• Cigarette smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of low birth weight, prematurity, spontaneous abortion, and perinatal mortality in humans, which has been referred to as the fetal tobacco syndrome.

As mentioned earlier, this list can only begin to convey the harmful health effects of smoking cigarettes and its long term side effects. Next we consider reasons why smoking is bad for those around you in the effects of second hand smoke.

               Theres no other issue on these if theres no smokers in the world. A simple act that can save you life. You cab live without it, just live normally and have a healthy living. You will not just benefit from it but also to others that is not involve to it.

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