Cigarette smoke irritates the lungs and paralyses the protective cilia, tiny hari like structures that line the airways and clean out dust and dirt.The elastic walls of the small air sacs in the lungs break down in smokers. This condition called emphysema reduces the amount of lungs tissue available for the transver of oxygen from the air to the blood.
Passive smoking may lead to asthma and other lung disorders in childreen.
Chronic infection of the lung tissue and the airways increases the risk of asthma and lung cancer, and more diseases
Cancer causing chemical in tobacco smoke
- Arsenic, used in wood preservatives
- Cadmium, used in batteries
- Chromium, used to manufacture dye, paints and alloys
- Nitrosamines, another group of DNA-damaging chemicals
- Tar, a mixture of dangerous chemicals
- Acrolein, formerly used as a chemical weapon
- Polonium 210, a highly radioactive element
- and other chemicals
Other poisons in cigarette smoke
- Carbon monoxide, found in car exhaust and used in chemicals manufacturing
- Hydrogen cyanide, used as an industrial pestiside
- Nitrogen oxides, a major component of smog
- and more poisons
Here are a few idea to get you started to quit smoke :
Improve your health, whatever your age
Giving up smoking at any age will increase your life expectancy, provided you stop before you develop cancer or another serious disease.
Save yourself thousands of pounds
Smoking is very expensive. At today's rates, smoking around twenty cigarettes a day for the next twenty years would cost you over $30,000.
Stop the stress and the guilt
More and more buildings are now non-smoking so finding a place to smoke can be quite stressful. How many times have you felt anxious because you didn’t know when you were going to get your next cigarette? Think how nice it would be not to get stressed about where you can go to smoke.
Look after those around you
If you smoke, you may be exposing your friends, partner or children to your smoke and endangering their health. Smoking may reduce your fertility and your chances of having a baby.
Look younger and more attractive
Smoking ages your skin. It also makes you smell of smoke and stains your fingers and teeth. And in the long term, smoking could damage your circulation leading to gangrene and even amputation. So give up now before it’s too late.
