There have been many studies that prove that smoking besides causing addiction also causes many health problems, such as cancer, impotence, heart disease, respiratory disease, gastrointestinal disease, kidneys, adverse effects on pregnancy and fetus, and much more.
When looking at its history, smoking for the first time done by Indian tribes in America. Smoking by the Indians is done for ritual purposes such as worshiping gods or spirits. Furthermore, in the 16th century, when Europeans found the American continent, some of the European explorers were involved to try smoking cigarettes and then bring tobacco to Europe. The smoking habit then began to emerge among the European nobility. But, unlike the Indians who smoke for ritual purposes, in Europe people smoke only for pleasure. Until finally in the 17th century Spanish merchants entered Turkey and then the smoking habit began to enter the Islamic countries.
Poison on Cigarettes
In a cigarette contained about 4000 kinds of chemicals. These chemicals are comprised of gas components (85 percent) and particles. Nicotine, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, hydrogen cyanide, ammonia, acrolein, acetylene, benzaldehyde, urethan, benzene, methanol, cumarin, 4-ethylcatolol, orthocresol and perylene are some of the thousands of substances in cigarettes.
Of the approximately 4000 kinds of chemicals in cigarettes, at least 200 of them declared dangerous to human health. The main toxins in cigarettes are tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide.
Tar is a sticky hydrocarbon substance and attached to the lungs.
Nicotine is an addictive substance that affects the nerves and blood circulation. This substance is carcinogenic, and can trigger lung cancer is deadly.
Carbon monoxide is a substance that binds hemoglobin in the blood, making the blood unable to bind oxygen.
Toxic Effects
Toxic effects on these cigarettes make smoking smokers exposed to risk (compared to those who do not smoke cigarettes):
14x had lung, mouth, and throat cancer
4x had esophageal cancer
2x bladder cancer
2x heart attack
Smoking is the main cause of about 90% of cases of lung cancer-male parupada and about 70% in women. The more cigarettes smoked, the greater the risk of telling a lung cancer.
Cigarettes also increase the risk of fatality for people with heart pneumonia dangagal, and high blood pressure
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