Some Smoking Facts

 

If you were convinced about the dangers of smoking, you would have given it up long ago. The trouble with smoking is that it is a silent killer. From what you see all around you, you believe that not only smoking is harmless but also invigorating because you see smokers looking quite happy and in high spirits. And if you have been smoking for some time, you feel okay to.

So, you dismiss all talk about the dangers of smoking as meaningless.

 

However, here are some hard facts about smoking that you need to know. These should be enough to give you an understanding about the dangers of smoking. Perhaps you have heard of the three toxins in cigarettes: nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide. But, you may not know how harmful these three killer chemicals are to you and how these dangers of smoking can affect your body and mind. Let’s look at them in detail:

 

·         Nicotine – The most prominent of the dangers of smoking

 

Nicotine alone is responsible for many dangers of smoking and making smoking an addiction. It creates that uncontrollable craving for a puff. Once it enters the blood stream it moves very fast - in seven seconds it reaches the brain. Imagine the dangers of smoking that lead to this harmful chemical moving all through your body. And this just one of the dangers of smoking. Worse still, the dangers of smoking from the effect of nicotine, last for nearly two days. This means that even if you are not a chain smoker, nicotine never leaves your blood and keeps building toxicity.

 

The dangers of smoking nicotine can be seen in the mood, overall appearance, stamina, speed and weight of smokers. Nicotine brings the skin temperature down and causes numbness in hands and feet as it obstructs the flow of blood to the extremities. The resultant danger of smoking - it constricts the arteries that results in heart attacks and strokes.

 

·         Tar – Another danger of smoking

 

When you smoke a cigarette, nearly 70% of the tar remains in the body and keeps spreading to different parts. It is a well know fact and laws have been made against the use of such substances. That is why cigarette manufacturers claim that their cigarettes are low in tar. But this is ridiculous because low level of tar does not reduce the resultant dangers of smoking. The end dangers of smoking are the same. The dangers of smoking tar contents in cigarettes are evident from the reports of babies dying after accidentally eating cigarettes or cigarette butts.

 

·         Carbon Monoxide – Lethal danger of smoking

 

 Carbon monoxide is the colorless, odorless and tasteless deadly gas that is extremely harmful to your health. The carbon monoxide really is a danger of smoking  – it obstructs the flow of oxygen in the blood. It affects the throat, voice box, lungs and oral cavity. The most lethal dangers of smoking thus lead to cancers in kidneys, pancreas, bladder, stomach and cervix. When it reaches this stage - the dangers of smoking are already real – and the strong toxics prevent treatment of these cancers.