2006-06-29 02:35:31 · 14 answers · asked by audaciously_shy 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
the carbon monoxide produced by the cigarette reduces the oxygen carrying capacity of your blood and the nicotine goes and gets deposited in the lungs making them less effective by reducing their capacity
2006-06-29 02:40:04 · answer #1 · answered by raj 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that cigarette smoke is more dangerous than many forms of smoke is that the smoke particle is very small and can lodge deep in one's lungs. Then it becomes very hard for the body to get rid if it.
While it is their it can cause some damage. How it damages I'm not sure. Could be that the particle simply be pressure. The other problem is it could interact chemically. It has tars and goo. This could directly cause tissue damage. I don't know which it would be.
2006-06-29 09:42:19 · answer #2 · answered by James W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TTS (Toxix Tobacco Smoke) is the result of the numerous chemicals within a cigarette and is responsible for many illnesses, including Sudden Infant Death, Asthma, premature births, low baby weight, breast cancer, lung disease, heart disease and eye irritation.
What I just read on this site, I wonder just how many smokers are aware of the dangers? I don't smoke, but my son does, though he does not smoke in the house (my rules).
2006-06-29 09:47:36 · answer #3 · answered by kath68142 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The nicotine, which is an integral part of the cigarette, forms a major part of cigarette smoke. It, along with various other chemicals - like cyclic hydrocarbons which are themsleves carcinogenic - causes lung cancer, smokers' cough and all the other disorders' related to somking.
2006-06-29 09:44:17 · answer #4 · answered by chinu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I'm not mistaken, cigarette smoke contains chemicals that rips adenine from DNA. This in turn mutates the DNA by way of point deletion, triggering cancers to grow.
2006-06-29 13:01:39 · answer #5 · answered by Billy C. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cigarette smoke contains 10 000 harmful toxins.
Dr Pratt
2006-06-30 02:01:00 · answer #6 · answered by Mujaahid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the hydrazine from an agricultural chemicals used on the tobacco plant when it's growing. It's a known carcinogen. Plus lots of other stuff in the "tar" may be bad.
2006-06-29 09:42:34 · answer #7 · answered by Bob H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the chemicals in the actual smoke, mainly cyclic aromatic products. these tend to invade the dna slotting between the bases and in this way they cause frameshift of the dna causing proteins to become abnormal or inactive
2006-06-29 10:33:54 · answer #8 · answered by Prof. Hubert Farnsworth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nicotene
2006-06-29 09:40:32 · answer #9 · answered by payal_kothari_acclaris 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The posion and tar that will build up in the lungs. And into the heart.
2006-06-29 09:43:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋