Tobacco is a $200 billion industry, producing six trillion cigarettes a year – about 1,000 cigarettes for each person on earth. And this is what you’ll find in cigarettes:
~ Formaldehyde, which embalmer use to preserve dead bodies;
~ Toluene, which is commonly used as an ingredient in paint thinner;
~ Acetone, an active ingredient in nail polish remover;
~ Ammonia, which scientists have discovered lets you absorb more nicotine, keeping you hooked on smoking.
If you smoke, you and those around you also inhaling arsenic, benzene, cadmium, hydrogen cyanide, lead, mercury and phonol. In all, 4000 harmful chemicals, including 44 types of poison, of which 43 are proven cancer-causing substances. That should be reason enough why a person should stop smoking immediately.
Bad business
Life insurance companies charge smokers nearly double the amount they charge non-smokers for term assurance. Some tobacco companies also own shares in life assurance companies. What appears to be a good deal for tobacco companies is a bad deal for taxpayers: the health care costs caused directly by smoking, and the lost economic productivity, cost governments up to three times as much as the total earnings of the tobacco industry.
Death
Smokers are ten times more likely to suffer from lung cancer than non-smokers, three times more likely to have a stroke, and twice more likely to suffer a heart attack. Carbon monoxide in cigarettes deprives the heart of oxygen. Smoking can cause headaches, infertility, blood vessel disease, digestive problems, mouth and throat cancer, and blindness.
Tobacco causes more deaths than those caused by all the wars of the past 100 years, including World Wars One and Two. More than three million people die each year as a result of smoking.
Nicotine is a drug. It is more addictive than cocaine, heroine or mandrax. Nicotine is a natural insecticide. Plants such as tomatoes produce it in their leaves to discourage bugs from eating them.
Stop smoking
After 8 hours, the carbon monoxide in your blood drops to normal.
After 48 hours, nerve endings start regrowing and the ability to smell and taste is enhanced.
After a year, the risk of heart disease drops halfway back to that of a non-smoker.
After 15 years, the risk of coronary heart disease is that of a non-smoker.
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YAY SMOKING:)!!!!!!!!
ok… after reading all this… i truly quit smoking, i didn't knew that it has that much poisions and other nasty things on it… thats it… no more smoking for me… really…
smoke weed!
This article is very educating. At least for smokers who find it hard to quit their habit, they will have reasons why they must put their vices at halt because of this article that will serve as their inspiration.
just check the stats of pollution or tea or coffee, or oil, or cold drinks …………..same discouraging
i dont get how people could know about all the bad effects and still start anyway. My guess it cause poeple think they are cool, it is good to do bad, and it feels good. people need to smarten up. there are no positive affects and it will be life altering. i have friends who smoke and it frightens me. i dont want any harm to them, but this was their decision and i told them my opinion. the rest is up to them. God save us all!
-erin
i agree… i am doing a report on smoking and thier insurrance companies. as a concern, do you think smokers should be penalized by thier ins. companies?
-cj
go die in a hole u low life oh yeah smoke weed hahahha so not funny
i think they should
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Weeds is one of the safest drugs out there. Safer then Alcohol, Tobacoo, and Caffine.
I'm doing a essay about making Tobacco Illegal
nah mate…fucks up ur head an evryfin…dont smoke weed
Doesnt fuck up your head, only after imediate intoxication is your ability to learn lowered. (Like you would try to learn something during alcohol intox). Noone has ever died from smoking weed and THC and other cannabinoids contained in weed fight cancerous cells (Injecting concentrated THC makes tumor cells smaller or makes them disapear, as Spanish scientist found out in 2009 and US government found out in the 80s while trying to prove THC causes cancer :-D )
Dont get manipulated by governmental propaganda and try to search for university research papers. You will find prove of governmental lies very fast. Besides, weed is illegal cause drug companies cant patent it and it has been made illegal cause of paper and cotton industry. Watch any document bout history of cannabis plant. US constitution is written on cannabis paper, that should say something
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Hes right m8 ;] smoke weed a good semsimillia
I wish for the same thing but the thing is it will probably never happen even in a million years :(
smokinggs baad :O
yes; go die in a hole withh johnn :)
Omg truee?
gO diee in a hOle with jOhnnn !! :D