What are the dangers of Cigarette Smoking?
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I could copy and paste a ton of information in this box if I were just looking to give you the longest answer so I would get picked for best answer, but I'd rather you were well-informed.  The information I have to offer you is extremely extensive and so it can't all be posted here.  I have included a link.  The information that you are looking for will be on the left-hand side of the page, under the heading, "How Tobacco Destroys the Body."  If you know someone who is a smoker, this site is a wonderful resource for knowledge and information on the effects of smoking and how to quit.  I should know.  I smoked for 7 years and I quit one year ago.  Best of luck to you.
1161975
Far too many.  Smoking is an idiotic habit that people need to give up.  I'm sitting here with an ear infection because I've been exposed to cigarette smoke since conception.
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Let us examine the facts.\n\n1.  constant irritation can cause tumors to develop.  Smoking irritates the lining of the lungs.  You don't smoke periodically; therefore, you have constant irritation.\n\n2.  nicotine irritates the lining of the artery wall and thereby causes plaque to adhere to the walls increasing your risk of having either a heart attack or a stroke.\n\n3.  smoking causes irritation of the bladder and the bowels on the same premises that nicotine causes the irritation.  Thereby increasing your risk of having colon and bladder cancer.\n\n4.  finally, after 50 years of research of people who don't believe in God because you can't prove he exists scientifically, leaves little doubt in this nurse's mind that there is no link between smoking and certain cancers.\n\nDisclaimer:  there are four types of lung cancer.  The type usually caused by cancer is small oat cell carcinoma.  The most difficult to treat and with little success.
90414
I knew all of the risks involved in smoking and started anyway because I simply just wanted to fit in.  Stupid I know, but I am proud to say that I quit smoking 2 years ago.  I also lost someone close to me to cancer.  It was my mother and she died of colon cancer.  She never smoked a day in her life.  Some people die from lung cancer and never smoke either.  Smoking is a highly addictive drug.  Even though people know what could happen to them, they just don't care anymore because the nicotine has control of them.  Its sad, but true.
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Smoking dramatically increases your chance of getting lung cancer (amongst other cancers of the mouth and throat) but is not the ONLY cause of cancer. Sometimes cancer develops not due to smoking. Cigarettes contain cancer CAUSING agents.
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Smoking make u go blind, causes gangrene, make your leg drop off, rot away your lungs, give you lung cancer, throat cancer, contribute to strokes and heart diseases.\n\nBasically screw up your whole body system. A slow but sure way to die early.
947623
I don't know that there is any evidence of this.  I think the danger is in inhaling the smoke of burning leaves.  \n\nIf there is any danger in your job, I would think that there would be more danger in the chemical additives used then the tobacco itself.
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Drinking doesn't directly cause harm to anyone else. True, over indulgence can cause people to make irrational decisions which can be harmful or even deadly, but smoking is ALWAYS dangerous. I have had breathing issues since I was a baby and being around cigarette smoke greatly aggravates that. It's not fair for other peoples health to be constantly compromised because of other's addictions.
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Menthol Cigarettes are more harmful because the menthol soothes the throat so that you can inhale the toxins deeper into your lungs than you can with regular cigarettes. It can result in more scarring and damage to your lungs.\n\nIf you are not thinking about quitting and absolutely have to smoke, it is best if you don't smoke menthols, but there is no such thing as a safe cigarette.
918791
Hmm.  Well, in Safety Education a million years ago, I learned cigarette *smoke* contains hydrogen cyanide, among other yummy things.
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also throat cancer, i think. http://www.rdoc.org.uk/smoking_tobacco_risk.html
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No , but there are terrible consquences of smoking like heart disease, stroke and lung cancer, go to the following sites for more info:\n\nhttp://www.quitnow.info.au/ (best anti-smoking site)\nhttp://www.quit.org.au/\nhttp://www.nsma.org.au/facts.htm\nhttp://www.healthinsite.gov.au/topics/Health_Effects_of_Smoking\n\n(They are australian sites because i'm from there_)
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secondhand smoke.\n\n1. It is harmful medically to other people.\n2. It smells awful.\n3. it gets on thier clothes and makes them stink.\n4. It makes them cough & gag.\n5. makes it hard for them to breathe.
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There are so many things that smoking does to the body. The really sad fact is that it does not just hurt the smoker. It really does effect all persons around them. \nA smoker has increased risk of respiratory and vascular complications. Smoking actually creates a tar substance in the lungs and decreases the persons capacity to take in oxygen. Also smokers veins and arteries are constricted from chemicals in the cigarettes. This puts them at a higher risk for blood clot causing stroke.\nMothers who smoke when they are pregnant usually have smaller babies. A nonsmokers umbilical cord (which supplies nourishment to the baby) is usually about wide as a roll of quarters and the smokers umbilical cord is about as thick as a pencil. \nChildren who grow up in the home of a smoker are at higher risk for developing asthma and/or allergies. They can develop lung cancer just as easily as the actual smoker can. Not to mention that growing up with parents who smoke puts them at higher risk for becoming smokers themselves. \nI have a grandfather that smokes. He is eighty. The last several years he has been on oxygen. He wakes up at night because he can't get his breath. He has a barrel chest because that is what your body does to try and help you get more oxygen. Your lungs try to get bigger so they can take in more oxygen because the cigarettes have destroyed portions of the lungs over the many years of smoking. Some people would say he has made it to eighty and that is a long time for a smoker to live. You have to keep in mind that most of his family lived into or close to their 100's. They say that every cigarette takes five minutes off your life. There is no telling how long he could have lived if he had just been able to stop smoking.
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Smoking will constrict all blood vessels which could be a problem if they are already narrowed by plaque from cholesterol.
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Here are some facts about smoking:\n\nHalf of all people who smoke will end up dying of a smoking-related problem. (National Institute on Aging)\n\nEach day, over a thousand people in America die because of a smoke-related issue. (CDC)\n\nSmokers die an average of 12 years younger than their nonsmoking neighbors. (NIA)\n\nEach year in America, 100 billion dollars is spent treating people who are sick from a smoke-related problem. (WHO)\n\nA spouse or roommate of a smoker is likely to develop problems from second-hand smoke, including stroke, lung cancer, and even breast cancer. (Vanderbilt University Study)\n\nSmall children who live with a smoker are more like to have asthma. (CDC)\n\n70% of smokers suffer mental disorders caused by their addiction to nicotine. (National Institute of Alcohol Abuse)\n\nNocitine damages a smoker's home -- wallpaper, carpet, and curtains get discolored and have the smell of smoke.\n\nThe average price of a carton of cigarettes is 20-40 dollars. If you smoke a carton a week, that's about 100 dollars a month you're wasting.\n\nAccording to a study by the Australian Medical Journal, smokers generally don't go on as many dates as nonsmokers. Smoking has been shown to stain your teeth, affect your complexion, and leave the smell of smoke on your breath. \n\nAnd if that's not enough, consider this: some 80% of the nonsmoking world wants to ban smoking in public altogether, so in a few years smoking will be all but illegal anyway.\nCigarette smoking in public places causes pollution and poor air quality, which means people with asthma are made sick by their neighbors who smoke.\n\nSmoking is not just a personal decision. It affects your neighbors, your spouse, your children, your pocketbook, your coworkers, and your customers.
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1) don't smoke them\n\ntar is in Cigarettes they made um that way\nyou could get lung cancer don't drink don't smoke\nit grows in tabcoo if you are smart don't smoke please!