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Smoking is a practice in which a substance is burned and the resulting smoke
breathed in to be tasted and absorbed into the bloodstream. It usually takes the form of a cigarette containing many substances of which can be deadly to your body. Some people use the dried leaves of a tabacco plant rolled into a small square of rice paper to create a small, round cylinder into a cigarette. It began in 5000BC where they used burnt incense in religious rituals. Since then, different forms of cigarettes have taken place and becoming more and more deadly. A 2007 report states that, each year, about 4.9 million people worldwide die as a result of smoking. |
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What's inside a cigaretteCigarettes are a recreational drug that is legal almost everywhere
Watch a video here to find out more about what's inside. |
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Once you start, It's hard to stopSmoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains nicotine, which is highly addictive. Like heroin or other addictive drugs,the body and mind quickly become so used to the nicotine in cigarettes that a person needs to have it just to feel normal. Why do people smoke?Some think it looks cool.Others start because their family members or friends smoke. Statistics show that about 9 out of 10 tobacco users start before they're 18 years old. Most adults who started smoking in their teens never expected to become addicted. So it's just so much easier to not start smoking at all. Save yourself the trouble and DON'T START. |
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How does it affect you, inside?Smoking has many poisonous substances inside when you take it in and as suchthe body goes on the defense when it's being poisoned. Due to that, first-time smokers often feel pain or burning in the throat and lungs, and some people feel sick or even throw up the first few times they try tobacco. Health issuesThe image on the right shows black liquid tar, which is also found in cigarette smoke.The tar causes the lungs to turn from healthy to black. It stains you and the people around you when you pick up that stick. Go over to Taped Videos to see what it does to you smoking leads people to develop health problems like heart disease, stroke, emphysema
(breakdown of lung tissue), and many types of cancer —
Smoking also leads to wrinkles and yellow teeth, they also lose bone density, which increases their risk
of osteoporosis.
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What does this tell you?Don't start even if you're pressuriezed to do it.Don't start even if you feel stressed. Don't resort to these DRUGS. If you find yourself dragged in, unable to quit.
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Don't touch that stick
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