Smoking

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Passive or active smoking

The act of inhaling and exhaling the fumes of burning tobacco in cigars, cigarettes or pipes is called cigarette smoking. Smokers may suffer from depression is one of the main reasons for people indulging in this act. Other reason why people smoke is they often get addicted to cigarette a young age. There appears to be a greater potential for younger people to acquire this habit from elders especially from their parents, by seeing them smoke in their house or when used by the parents themselves for obtain the cigarettes for local shops or malls.

Some smokers get what amounts to an imaginary pleasure of relaxation from smoking. Smokers would suggest that quitting the habit is hard and it depends on the mental strength of the person if they can alter there behaviour in order to quite. Nicotine, is one of the dangers components, inhaling and exhaling the fumes of burning tobacco, mainly because it is responsible for the addiction to this habit.

Effects of Smoking
Tobacco smoke contains a substance called nicotine, a poisonous alkoid. It also has substances such as carbon monoxide, acrolien, ammonia, prussic acid, aldehydes and tar. If you consider a cigarette in its entirety it contains about 4000 chemicals which when set ablaze produce a lot of substances that cause permanent damage to your health.

Diseases Caused
The harmful effects of smoking are many. Smoking affects lung and causes lung cancer. In other cases illness such as heart diseases, stroke, cardiovascular diseases, mouth cancer are caused by smoking. Pregnant women, affecting their unborn child because tobacco reduces the blood flow and thereby the flow of oxygen and nutrients to the unborn baby gets reduced causing, sometimes, the death of the baby itself.

Passive Smoking
The dangers of smoking are varied in that non smokers are also affected by the act of smoking. Passive or second-hand smoking as it is know occurs when the non smoker is exposed to inhales the cigarette smoke of others. Passive or second-hand smoke is dangerous because it can lead problems such as lung cancer, heart diseases, heart attacks and breast cancer for some women.

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