Tobacco is used world wide in different forms. The most common way to use to tobacco is smoking cigarettes. Tobacco is a green leafy plant that grow in warm climates. Farmers use many different chemicals to grow tobacco. In one cigarette there are over 4000 chemicals, some reports even mention 5000 chemicals. There are 51 cadiogenic substans in there. A cardiogenic substans is something that causes cancer.
Other substances are:
Nicotine (found in bug spray)
Carbon Monoxide (found in car exhaust)
Tar (Material to make roads)
Arsenic (poison to kill rats)
Ammonia (A colorless gas found in cleaning products)
Hydrogen Cyanide (Gas chamber poison)
Cyanide (deadly poison)
Acetone (nail polish remover)
Butane (cigarette lighter fluid)
DDT (Insecticides, was used to kill insects but now forbidden in most countries because it is very toxic to fishes, crayfishes and other animals)
Formaldehyde (To preserve dead batteries)
Sulfuric Acid (found in car batteries)
Batteries (used to recharge old batteries)
Freon (damages the ozon layer on Earth)
Maltitol (sweetener not permitted to be used in food in the U.S.
If one person ate one pack of cigarettes the person would die.
Nicotine is the substance that makes the tobacco user want more. When the cigarette is inhaled the nicotine makes an effect within 10 seconds. So the smoke in the mouth goes down to the lungs and up to the brain in 7-10 seconds. When it arrives to the brain the nicotine triggers a number of chemical reactions that create temporary feelings of pleasure. As soon as the cigarette is out the nicotine withdrawal starts and the smoker feels edgy and agitated. Research has shown that nicotine increases the level of dopamine in the brain, neurotransmitter that is responsible for feelings of pleasure and well-being.
What do smoking do to your body?
Blood pressure goes up
Increased risk of cancer in lungs, stomach, prostate, kidney, leukemia and more.
Higher risk of getting colds
Smoking makes asthma worse
Chronical Bronchitis (serious lung infection)
Emphysema
Higher risk of getting pneumonia¨
Hairy tongue
Lungs black as charcoal
Bad breath
Skin and hair have a bad smell
Earlier than normal wrinkles skin, especially in the face
Stained teeth mainly from Tar
Bad blood circulation particulary in hands and feet when the capillary blood vessels gets smaller. (The small blood vessels that reach the fingertips).
Ets.
“As you age, a residue called plaque can build up in the coronary arteries through which your blood flows. Active and/or passive smoking accelerates this process.”
This do not happen to everyone that use tobacco and may not happen very fast. Even though you stop smoking the risk of having side effects are still higher than for a non-smoker but the risk of having the issues gets less for every hour, every week, every month and every year you are free from tobacco so it is never too late to stop using tobacco.
Smoking kills 480,000 annually (numbers from 2007).
Maybe it do not happen to you, do you want to take the risk by using it???