How does smoking cigarettes effect your health? Read the following article from Teens Health and describe what smoking does to your circulatory and respiratory system.
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This is the blog for Ms. Hero's Biology Class at Carlmont High School. Articles related to what we are studying in class will be posted with prompts for student response.
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Smoking tobacco related products is truly a fatal attraction. Each time that a person smokes, they shorten their life span by 5-20 minutes. However, many people cannot stop because they are addicted to the nicotine that the tobacco companies put in their cigarettes. The prolonged inhalation of smoke can cause many serious side effects. Many long time smokers develop health problems like heart disease, stroke, emphysema (breakdown of lung tissue), and many types of cancer — including lung, throat, stomach, and bladder cancer. People who smoke also have an increased risk of infections like bronchitis and pneumonia. These people also experience physical changes like wrinkles, and yellow teeth. The good thing, is that people no longer light up as much as the past, because they have become aware of the serious side effects that occur.
ReplyDeleteSmoking can cause a huge amounts of diseases and cancers such as heart disease, stroke,emphysema,lung cancer, throat cancer,stomache and bladder cancer. It can also cause yellow teeth, bad breath and wrinkles. They can also get infections like bronchitis and pnemonia. Now that people are aware of these issues that come with smoking, not as many people do it now than they did in the past.
ReplyDeleteCigarrettes contain nicotine and tobacco which is extremely addictive and also very deadly. The body and mind get used to the cigarette and after a while it needs the nicotine to feel normal. Nicotine and cyanide are poisons that can kill someone with high doses. Smoking after a while will lead a person to serious health problems like heart disease.People that smoke also have a greater chance of certain infections. Each time a person smokes it takes away a little bit of that persons life. By smoking people will eventually get wrinkles and develop yellow teeth and also loose bone density, which is why smokers are not as active as nonsmokers. Smoking causes bad breath, bad skin, bad smelling clothes and hair, increased risk of illness, and many more.
ReplyDeleteSmoking is a dangerous habit that is really an addiction. However our bodies do not become addicted the first time that a person begins smoking. Actually our body reacts to being poisoned and tries to put up defenses against it. Smoking can cause pneumonia, bronchitis, heart disease, stroke, and emphysema. Also smoking can limit a persons ability to do physical activities.
ReplyDeleteSmoking is an unhealthy and unnecessary habit. Cigarettes contain many toxins such as cyanide and the addictive chemical nicotine. Short-term effects of smoking (when you first try it) are burning sensations in the lungs and throat, bad breath, and poor lung function. Some long-term effects are heart disease, stroke emphysema (breakdown of lung tissue), and even osteoporosis. Smoking also causes many types of cancer such as lung, stomach, throat, and bladder cancer. Despite its dangers, smoking is extremely addictive and many find it hard to quit.
ReplyDeleteCigarettes contain deadly toxins including nicotine. Nicotine, like heroine and other drugs, is addictive. Once a smoker gets nicotine in their system, it is extremely difficult fo rthem to quit their deadly habbit. The long term effects of smoking are cancer, emphysema, and heart disease; that it can shorten your life by 10 years or more; and that the habit can cost a smoker thousands of dollars a year. Despite the dangers and warnings everyone has heard, a large part of the society today are smokers.
ReplyDeleteSmoking is probably one of the most dangerous things anybody could do to their body. Cigarette smoke contains toxic chemicals such as cyanide and highly addictive substances such as nicotine. After smoking many times, the body starts to rely on nicotine to feel normal. Long term effects can include emphysema, cancer, and heart disease. It can also make you more susceptible to illnesses, as your immune system is weakened. It is a disgusting habit; after a while, your hair, clothes, car, and even home start to smell like smoke, and that smell does not come out.
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