| Over the years, cigarette smoking has become a | | | | that comes along with smoking is the risk of getting |
| trend that has been picked up all around the world. | | | | lung cancer. Many individuals who smoke believe that |
| Countries big and small have all used Tobacco for | | | | lung cancer only occurs in people who are older and |
| quite some time now and analysts have been able to | | | | have been smoking for years upon years. This simply |
| study how it has affected the population. Cigarette | | | | is not the case. Young or old, individuals who smoke |
| companies have used all kinds of tactics to sell their | | | | are always at a high risk of getting cancer in the lungs, |
| smoking products, but underlying all the advertisements | | | | throat, or mouth. |
| and efforts to promote them, they still manage to hide | | | | One of the most important things to note about lung |
| behind the fact that they kill off thousands of people | | | | cancer is that it is very hard to detect in its early |
| each year. | | | | stages. Smokers who are diagnosed with lung cancer |
| Cigarette smoking is very addictive and people who | | | | usually do not start to experience symptoms until the |
| start have a hard time trying to quit later on in life. | | | | cancer has grown to a very dangerous state, and |
| What primarily makes cigarettes so addictive is that | | | | often times by then it is too late to do anything about it. |
| they contain the drug nicotine which is a stimulant. | | | | Pregnant women who smoke put their baby risk of |
| Every time a smoker inhales a cigarette, this drug | | | | having several health problems as well. The |
| enables the release of epinephrine in the body. | | | | percentage of miscarriages in women who smoke |
| epinephrine increases the heart rate of an individual. | | | | while pregnant are much higher than that of women |
| The average cigarette also contains over 60 | | | | who are nonsmokers. |
| carcinogens so one of the most dangerous effects | | | | |