| A good percentage of the people today are very | | | | the processes including the internal functioning of |
| much aware of the dangerous effects of cigarette | | | | organs and the efficient working of the body's |
| smoking. The distressing fact is that it is difficult for | | | | immunity system. The destructive effects of cigarette |
| cigarette smokers to turn away from cigarettes and | | | | smoking are well known and these deleterious effects |
| quit the habit of smoking. The harm that tobacco | | | | can affect your entire body from head to toe. |
| cigarette smoking does to the human body does not | | | | Apart from the deleterious effects of tobacco on your |
| stop with lung cancer or bronchitis. The sad fact is that | | | | own personal health, one should also think about the |
| like every part of the human body, your family | | | | stress cigarette smoking puts on your wallet. Statistics |
| members as well as the various other aspects of your | | | | tell that someone who smokes a packet of tobacco |
| life are also getting hit hard due to your habit of | | | | cigarettes a day will end up spending over $700 every |
| smoking. | | | | year on cigarettes alone. That can tantamount to an |
| Sure, everyone knows about cancer of the lung and | | | | entire month's rent, two months’ worth of grocery |
| bronchitis. But very people know that tobacco | | | | items, or the cost of a good flat screen television. One |
| cigarette smoke is the number one contributor to heart | | | | need not mention that this money could have grown |
| attacks in smokers. Many other types of deleterious | | | | nicely in the smoker’s savings account. |
| cancers are found to be caused by smoking tobacco | | | | The ill effects of cigarette smoke also make its way |
| cigarettes. The diseases include liver cancer, bladder | | | | to those around the smoker as well. People who are |
| cancer, cancer of the larynx and throat, cancer of the | | | | exposed to second hand smoke take in about 20 % |
| mouth, tongue and easophagus, cancer of the large | | | | of the amount of nicotine compared to those who are |
| intestine, cancer of the bloodstream- the list goes on; it | | | | active smokers. If that is the case, for every ten |
| is unending. If even this does not scare you, simply | | | | cigarettes you have smoked with your children around |
| read the next part also. | | | | you, they would as well have smoked two and a half |
| Cigarettes no longer consist of rolled tobacco leaves | | | | cigarettes themselves. Even pet animals have been |
| as its only ingredient as many people still think or | | | | found to suffer from associated health problems which |
| believe. The tobacco manufacturers add some | | | | are attributed to their owners’ smoking habit. Many |
| harmful ingredients in order to increase a person’s | | | | of them suffer from respiratory diseases and various |
| addiction to tobacco and tobacco products. There are | | | | kinds of cancers- gifted by their owners in the form of |
| just about 4000 chemicals found in cigarette smoke of | | | | cigarette smoke. It is time to quit the habit and think |
| which many of them are toxic. These harmful | | | | about the lives of people around you. |
| ingredients in cigarettes affect almost every organ and | | | | |