Smoking is bad for you because your teeth turn all yellow, you get organ damage, and heart disease, also leaves your clothe smelly, and your hair all smelly of cigarette it's hard to take the smell off, also it's hard to quit smoking.
Why is It Good Being Smoke-Free?
You don't get your teeth yellow, and you don't mess up your lungs. The first time you smoke you throw up once you keep smoking you have a chance getting cancer. What also happens is when you smoke for about 1-2 years your blood vessels get like stuffed that is why most people that smoke have heart attacks.
How Does Smoking Cause Cancer?
Cigarette smoke is packed full of roughly 4000 compounds, many of which are toxic and can cause damage to our cells. Cigarette causes cancer because it contains Nicotine, Carbon Monoxide, and Tar.
What is Nicotine?
Nicotine doesn't cause cancer. But it is a highly addictive and very fast-acting drug. Once inhaled, nicotine reaches the brain in less than 15 seconds. Most smokers are addicted to nicotine and crave cigarettes to feed their addiction. This is the key ingredient that keeps people buying cigarettes and keeps the tobacco companies in business.
What Is Carbon Monoxide?
Carbon Monoxide is a tasteless, odorless poisonous gas. It is taken up by the bloodstream quickly and impairs the smoker's breathing. The gas is also emitted by car exhausts, faulty boilers and fires and is very dangerous in badly ventilated spaces. Inhaling too much carbon monoxide causes coma and death.
What is Tar?
Tar is a substance made up of various chemicals, many of which are known to cause cancer. Around 70% of the tar in cigarettes is deposited in the smoker's lungs.
What Age Do People Start Smoking?
Every single day about 4,000 kids between the ages 12 and 17 start smoking. Most middle school students don't smoke only about one out of 10 does. And most high school students don't smoke either about 1 in 4 does that means three out of four don't.
