Can Smoking Cigarette Kill Me?

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You might want to know that back in 1940s, there is evidence suggesting that smoking causes cancer.

In 1953, the chief executives of all major American tobacco company made a joint declaration to deny that cigarettes are harmful.

Six trillion cigarettes are sold worldwide annually and more people died from smoking than from AIDS, Malaria and fatal Accidents combined.

A cigarette kills more people than recreational drugs such as Marijuana and Ecstasy.

Smoking is more deadly than these drugs.

Professor Robert Proctor, a historian of science at Stanford University and the author of a book entitled Golden Holocaust: Origin of the Golden Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition said that cigarettes, not guns or bombs are the deadliest artifacts in the history of civilisation.

Olden days Cigarette

In the early history of cigarette smoking, smokers did not inhale tobacco smoke.

It is because the olden days cigarette smoke contains more alkaline.

Present day Cigarette

Present day Cigarettes are designed to create and maintain addiction.

Nicotine is added to create addiction to the smokers.

In the 19th century a new method of curing tobacco has been discovered, making the cigarette smoke less alkaline and easily inhale.

Cigarette smoke contains more than 50 types of cancer causing substances.

Nicotine will get you addicted and making it harder for you to stop smoking.

Prolong and continuous inhaling of tobacco smoke will damage your lung causing cancerous disease and other related medical conditions.

Medical Conditions related to Cigarette Smoking

* Heart Disease and Stroke

* Cancer

* Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

* Bone Loss and Osteoporosis

* Impotence or Erectile Dysfunction

Heart Disease and Stroke

Smoking cause fatty deposits build up in the wall of your blood vessel, making it narrow or blocked.

That leads to heart disease or stroke.

Cancer

Smokers are 22 times more likely to develop lung cancer.

The longer you smokes, the greater your risk of developing cancers such as cancer of the mouth, throat, larynx, pharynx, oesophagus, stomach, pancreas, kidney and bladder.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Smoking will narrow your airways and destroys the air sacs in your lungs.

It makes your breathing difficult.

Smoking is the most common cause of COPD, which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

Bone Loss and Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis disease causes your bones to lose density and become brittle, which leads to hip, spine and wrist fractures.

Impotence or Erectile Dysfunction

Smoking increases the risk of infertility in men.

If you smoke, you are 50% more likely to suffer from impotence or erectile dysfunction.

Smoking will reduces the volume of your sperm during ejaculation.

It lowers your sperm count, distorts your sperm shape and impairs your sperm mobility.

Smoking not only harms you but also the people around you.

It is called Second-hand Smoke.

90% of the smoke from your cigarette end up in the air a Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS).

Posted by: Mo Salle

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Books You Can Buy And Read:

Cigarettes, Nicotine And Health: A Biobehavioral Approach (Behavioral Medicine And Health Psychology)

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The Tobacco Atlas

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