Article - Why is Smoking Bad for You ?

          "Why is Smoking Bad for You?" is an article explaining the affects and danger of smoking. Smoking is responsible for several diseases, such as cancer, long-term respiratory diseases, and heart disease, as well as premature death. Smoking is the largest cause of death in the world. It is preventable, but many people are addicted. Recent studies have found that smokers can also affect the health of non-smokers in the environments they smoke in, releasing harmful chemicals such as tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide.
           Smoking can cause life-threatening cancer. 90% of lung cancer patients developed their disease because of smoking. Lung cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer deaths in the world. Smokers have a higher risk of developing: heart disease, heart failure, kidney failure, lung, breast, bladder, pancreatic, throat, stomach cancer and leukemia.
           Cigarettes contain 3 dangerous chemicals. Nicotine is a highly addictive chemical. It's extremely fast-acting drug. It reaches the brain within 15 seconds after it has been inhaled. Tremendous amounts of nicotine can cause vomiting, seizures, headaches and affect the nervous system. Tar contains several cancer-causing chemicals.70% of the tar remains in the lungs after it has been inhaled. Carbonm monoxide is a poisonous, odorless and tasteless gas. The body has a difficult time to tell the difference of oxygen and carbon monoxide, so it goes straight to the blood stream, affecting the entire body.
            This article had all the information needed to give readers knowledge about smoking. This article can even convince non-smokers to never smoke, if they were ever going to begin. Overall, smoking is very dangerous, it affects almost all the organs in the human body such as all of the respiratory system and humans should not put themselves at risk of getting seriously sick or even death.