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Effects of Smoking

• You can get addicted to smoking.

• Each year, more than 100,000 people die from smoking.

• Smoking can cause cancers.

• Nicotine and carbon monoxide in cigarettes increase your heart rate and blood pressure.

• It can cause heart attacks and stroke.

• Carbon monoxide attaches to the haemoglobin and prevents it from carrying oxygen.

• Smoking causes emphysema and bronchitis.

• Tar coats your lungs when you smoke.

• One in five deaths from heart disease is caused by smoking.

• Fat deposits narrow when you smoke, blocking blood vessels.

• Smoking can shorten your life by 10 years or more.

• Smoking can cause mouth cancer, neck cancer, gangrene and miscarriage.

• Hormone levels in your body decrease when you smoke.

• Air sacs in your lungs can get permanently damaged by smoking.

Other Facts About Smoking

• Cigarettes have about 4000 chemicals. Most of them are harmful.

• They include nicotine, arsenic, methane, ammonia, cadmium and carbon monoxide.

• Nicotine is the drug that is addictive in cigarettes.

• Smoking can make you sick if you are not used to it.

• Smoking increases your chance of a cavity.

• It would be crazy to waste money for harm, since smoking is expensive and harmful.

• Smokers can get sick easily compared to non-smokers.

• In the past, smoking was allowed almost anywhere.

• Second-hand smoke can be as bad as direct smoking.