Cigarette smoking has a long history dating back to the 9th century. It was once commonly accepted and advertised, but is now widely restricted due to health issues. Smoking is addictive due to nicotine, which raises heart rate and blood pressure and causes smokers to crave more cigarettes. It can cause serious health problems like cancer, heart disease, and lung damage from tar accumulation and burned cilia. Pregnant smokers and secondhand smoke also pose risks.
Cigarette smoking has a long history dating back to the 9th century. It was once commonly accepted and advertised, but is now widely restricted due to health issues. Smoking is addictive due to nicotine, which raises heart rate and blood pressure and causes smokers to crave more cigarettes. It can cause serious health problems like cancer, heart disease, and lung damage from tar accumulation and burned cilia. Pregnant smokers and secondhand smoke also pose risks.
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Cigarette smoking has a long history dating back to the 9th century. It was once commonly accepted and advertised, but is now widely restricted due to health issues. Smoking is addictive due to nicotine, which raises heart rate and blood pressure and causes smokers to crave more cigarettes. It can cause serious health problems like cancer, heart disease, and lung damage from tar accumulation and burned cilia. Pregnant smokers and secondhand smoke also pose risks.
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Health issue Addictive of cigarette History • The earliest forms of cigarettes have been attested in Central America around the 9th century in the form of reeds and smoking tubes • When your parents were young, people could buy cigarettes and smoke pretty much anywhere — even in hospitals! Ads for cigarettes were all over the place. Today we're more aware about how bad smoking is for our health. Smoking is restricted or banned in almost all public places and cigarette companies are no longer allowed to advertise on TV, radio, and in many magazines. How they made it
Dangers Of Smoking With Nicotine
• One of the main dangers of smoking is due to Nicotine. Nicotine is found naturally in tobacco. It has no odor and no color. It is, however, both physically and psychologically addictive, and it causes those who use it to want to smoke one cigarette after another. The nicotine raises both the heart rate and blood pressure. Dangers Of Smoking With Tar • There are other dangers of smoking as well. The tar from tobacco smoke starts to accumulate on the bronchial tubes leading to the lungs. The hot smoke burns the tiny hairlike projections (called cilia) that trap harmful particles before they enter the lungs. Carbon Monoxide As a result, the smoker One more of the has to exert more dangers of smoking are physical effort to attain Carbon monoxide. a given task than does Smoking also a nonsmoker. The increases the level of heart in particular must carbon monoxide in the work harder, lungs. This poisonous particularly during gas is quickly absorbed rigorous exercise. into the blood, reducing Increased levels of its capacity to carry carbon monoxide in the oxygen. blood can impair vision, perception of time, and coordination. Health issue • It's no secret of all the negative health effects of smoking can have on the body. Cigarette smoking is one of the leading causes of heart disease and cancer. If you are a life time smoker you will more than likely die earlier then can be expected. In many cases these deaths occur during middle age. Your heart rate and blood pressure will increase due to the combination on nicotine plus carbon monoxide that every cigarette pumps into your body. Because the blood vessels are constricted, blood flow is reduced. This increases the chance having a heart attack or stroke. Smoking can cause miscarriages and birth defects if you smoke throughout the pregnancy. Smoking cigarette could cause several diseases like emphysema and lung cancer each cigarette smoked shortens lifespan by 11 minutes Over the years a smoker will be more likely to develop respiratory ailments, thickening of the arteries, blood clots, cancer of the lung, cervix, larynx, mouth, esophagus, bladder, pancreas, and kidney, and emphysema, as well as exhibit symptoms such as reduced stamina, poor athletic performance, wheezing, coughing, dizziness, and nausea. How it bad for our lung The tar from tobacco smoke starts to accumulate on the bronchial tubes leading to the lungs. The hot smoke burns the tiny hairlike projections (called cilia) that trap harmful particles before they enter the lungs. Addictive of cigarette
• The nicotine raises both the
heart rate and blood pressure. The smoker quickly feels more alert and relaxed. In less than 30 minutes, however, about half of the nicotine has left the bloodstream, and the smoker starts feeling less alert, more edgy. • So he or she reaches for another cigarette to get a new “hit” of nicotine. Over time, the smoker starts needing more cigarettes throughout the day to satisfy the craving. What about the second hand smoking? Cigarette use by pregnant women has also been shown to cause birth defects, including mental and physical disabilities. Secondhand smoke from cigarettes has been shown to be injurious to bystanders which has led to legislation that has banned their smoking in many workplaces and public areas.