Stop Smoking
Stop Smoking
Among the known 250+ harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke at least 69 can cause cancer! Smoking should stop because it causes secondhand smoke , It can make people ill and die, and it can start of fires easily.
One of the many reasons that we should stop smoking is because it causes secondhand smoke (smoke inhaled involuntarily, most of the time by children). (2) 50,000 deaths happen yearly due to secondhand smoke. (2) Being exposed to secondhand smoke slows the growth of childrens lungs, this can cause increased risk of heart disease by 25-30% (because of lack of or “polluted”oxygen.) (5) Smoking can not only affect the smoker, but it can affect children around you also.
Another reason that people should quit smoking is because of diseases and illnesses that it causes.There are more than 7,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke 250+ are known to be harmful, including hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide, and ammonia. Among the known 250+ harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke, at least 69 can cause cancer.(5) American Cancer Society (ACS) says “All cigarettes can damage the body.” (referring to herbal, electric, and natural) (6) Older smokers face an increased risk of Alzheimer’s, dementia happens commonly with Alzheimer’s, dementia is a group of symptoms including memory loss, mental decline, confusion in the evening hours, disorientation, forgetfulness, inability to speak or understand, making things up, mental confusion, or inability to recognize common things depression, hallucination, or paranoia. (6)W.H.O. (World Health Organization) estimates that smoking was responsible for the deaths of five million people each year from 2006-2007. (6)Nicotine is a drug that extremely addictive, it makes your body seem like you need or you’ll die. The Nicotine content is about 5.9-335.2 milligrams per cigar. (5)Smoking can cause heart disease, stroke, aortic aneurysm, COPD (Chronic Obstructive pulmonary Disease,) chronic bronchitis and emphysema, diabetes, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and worsens asthma symptoms in adults. (5)If that does not convince you, maybe losing your house will...
More ways that people can die are from fires but not only death can occur from fires, millions of dollars of money can be expended. Smoking material fires are fires started by cigarettes that were used and thrown to the ground and catch something on fire or cigarettes that are left alone until something catches it on fire making it catch everything else on fire.1 out of 4 fatal victims of smoking-material fires is not the smoker whose cigarette started the fire.(3) $621,000,000 worth of fire destruction occurred in 2011.(3) 2011/2010 had around 540 civilian deaths and 1,640 injuries from smoke-material fires.(3)In 2011 U.S fire department responded to an estimated 90,000 smoking material fires in the U.S.A.(3)1980-2011 fires started from smoking materials have been down 73% from smoking material fires.(3)
Now you know that when people smoke it affects you.There are many diseases that you can get from it and most can kill you, and you can lose your house from smoking material fires get to someone you know who smokes and make sure that he/she knows the risks, not only for his/her sake for yours as well!
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