When you put a cigarette to your lips and suck.
You take in to your mouth a compound of chemicals which contain 19 known carcinogens, (cancer causing stuff) that bind to your DNA
Smoke destroys the small hairs that line your airways and act as filters.
It also leaves behind a tar-like residue, which coats the surface of the lungs, clogging the tiny sacs in which the gas exchange takes place.
(Which is of course, the actual purpose of your lungs)
Tar is a serious contributory cause of emphysema.
Which is a condition where the tiny air sacks in the lungs, become blocked, and lose their ability to expand and contract, preventing the exchange of gasses.
Cigarette smoke contains Carbon Monoxide
Which stops the blood from taking up Oxygen. This has the effect of actually 'killing' blood cells, which then flow round your body as debris.
It also has an abrasive effect on your arteries, similar to cholesterol. causing the same hard coating to form
Carbon Monoxide is a very poisonous substance,
Its what kills you if you put a hose up a car exhaust.
Nicotine;
Is one of THE most poisonous substances on earth.
It is found naturally in the tobacco plant, which is thought to use it as a defence mechanism.
Nicotine is a stimulant.
It acts on your brain, making your heart beat faster, and also as a vaso-constrictor. (It narrows the blood vessels) Which raises your blood pressure
Nicotine is also Highly Addictive
It reaches your brain approximately seven seconds after you pull on your cigarette.
Where it triggers the release of chemical compounds called endorphines, which are the body's 'pleasure receptors'
The nicotine content of cigarettes is increasing
Between 1998 and 2005 nicotine content of cigarettes has increased by an average of 1.6%
This 'high' doesn't last long, and you want more, so you smoke another cigarette.
(it's much the same way with heroin) and you become 'addicted' to nicotine.
Cardio-vascular disease
Kills more smokers than Cancer
For more information go to http://www.middle-aged-men.com/effects-of-smoking.html
You take in to your mouth a compound of chemicals which contain 19 known carcinogens, (cancer causing stuff) that bind to your DNA
Smoke destroys the small hairs that line your airways and act as filters.
It also leaves behind a tar-like residue, which coats the surface of the lungs, clogging the tiny sacs in which the gas exchange takes place.
(Which is of course, the actual purpose of your lungs)
Tar is a serious contributory cause of emphysema.
Which is a condition where the tiny air sacks in the lungs, become blocked, and lose their ability to expand and contract, preventing the exchange of gasses.
Cigarette smoke contains Carbon Monoxide
Which stops the blood from taking up Oxygen. This has the effect of actually 'killing' blood cells, which then flow round your body as debris.
It also has an abrasive effect on your arteries, similar to cholesterol. causing the same hard coating to form
Carbon Monoxide is a very poisonous substance,
Its what kills you if you put a hose up a car exhaust.
Nicotine;
Is one of THE most poisonous substances on earth.
It is found naturally in the tobacco plant, which is thought to use it as a defence mechanism.
Nicotine is a stimulant.
It acts on your brain, making your heart beat faster, and also as a vaso-constrictor. (It narrows the blood vessels) Which raises your blood pressure
Nicotine is also Highly Addictive
It reaches your brain approximately seven seconds after you pull on your cigarette.
Where it triggers the release of chemical compounds called endorphines, which are the body's 'pleasure receptors'
The nicotine content of cigarettes is increasing
Between 1998 and 2005 nicotine content of cigarettes has increased by an average of 1.6%
This 'high' doesn't last long, and you want more, so you smoke another cigarette.
(it's much the same way with heroin) and you become 'addicted' to nicotine.
Cardio-vascular disease
Kills more smokers than Cancer
For more information go to http://www.middle-aged-men.com/effects-of-smoking.html