Dangers of Smoking Cigarettes ~ Men's Health Medicine

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Monday, January 2, 2012

Dangers of Smoking Cigarettes

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Cigarette smoke contains more than 4000 harmful chemicals. 400 are known to be poisonous and more than 50 that causes cancer.

Below are nine of the most widely known poisonous chemicals present in cigarette,

1. Nicotine

Nicotine is an addictive drug. It is added to create addiction to the smokers.

It acts as a stimulant that increases your heart rate and blood pressure causing you a host of circulatory problems.

2. Carbon Monoxide

Carbon Monoxide is a poisonous gas a car releases from its exhaust.

Carbon monoxide causes respiratory and breathing problems.

Carbon monoxide replaced decreasing oxygen in your red blood cells as well as lessens the oxygen circulating in your blood stream.

You will suffer shortness of breath and tire easily.

3. Tar

Tar is a toxic, cancer causing chemicals, a mixture of dangerous chemicals, black and sticky residue used in making road surfaces.

Tar forms thick black coating that clog up your lungs, increases your risk of developing lung cancer.

Other harmful chemicals found in cigarettes smoke

4. Arsenic

Arsenic is a cancer causing chemicals used in wood preservatives and rat poison.

Arsenic finds its way into cigarette smoke through the pesticides that are used in tobacco farming.

Arsenic is one of the most dangerous chemicals in cigarettes. It causes cancer and damages blood vessel in your heart.

It will reduce your body ability to repair DNA.

5. Ammonia

Ammonia is a poisonous gas. It gives out a strong and irritating smell.

Ammonia kills cilia (tiny hairs lining the airways that help to clear toxins) when it changes nicotine into a gas, easily absorbed into your lungs, airways and bloodstream.

It also enhances the addictive power of nicotine.

6. Benzene

Benzene is a cancer causing chemicals refined from crude oil used in an industrial solvent and gasoline including petrol.

It is well known that benzene causes cancer in particular leukaemia.

The high level of benzene from tobacco smoke accounts for a big proportion of our exposure to this poison.

7. Cadmium

Cadmium is a cancer causing chemicals/ metals found in car batteries.

Most of cadmium in our bodies comes from exposure to tobacco smoke.

It is known to damage your kidneys and the linings of your arteries.

Large amount of cadmium overwhelm the proteins in our body, prevent it from removing harmful chemicals like cadmium and preventing our cells from repairing damaged DNA.

8. Formaldehyde

Formaldehyde is a smelly cancer causing chemicals used in mortuaries for embalmment of dead bodies and manufacturing of paint.

Formaldehyde is known for causing cancer, gastrointestinal, respiratory and skin problems.

It is responsible for causing irritation to the nose, throat and eyes experienced by smokers when breathing in cigarette smoke.

9. Hydrogen Cyanide

Hydrogen cyanide is a poisonous gas used as an industrial pesticide.

Among all chemicals in cigarette smoke Hydrogen cyanide does the most damage to your heart and blood vessels.

Hydrogen cyanide does not cause cancer but it damages your cilia (tiny hairs lining the airways that help to clear toxins) allowing other dangerous chemicals to be stuck in the lungs and airways.

The chemicals in cigarettes are a closely held trade secret.

In 1994, US Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) found that American tobacco companies added 599 additives to tobacco during the production process.

Additives such as potassium nitrate acts as an oxidizer to keep the cigarette burning when not being drawn on and ammonia to enhance the addictive quality of nicotine at the same time its speed up delivery to your brain.