why is smoking dangerous to our health? explain the answer.?

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Answer 1

Let's start by looking at the contents in cigarette smoke:
It contains 6 toxins:
* Tar - we use it to pave streets
* Nicotine - An insecticide ... it's a poison that kills things.
* Carbon monoxide - Blocks the body's absorption of oxygen
* Formaldehyde - used to preserve dead bodies
* Hydrogen cyanide - cyanide is used in executions
* Benzene - a component of gasoline
Look at the above & ask yourself, do I want this in my lungs?

Do I need to go further? OK, my mother in law smoked and she contracted and died from lung cancer. God rest her soul.

Answer 2

Why Is Smoking Dangerous

Answer 3

Everybody knows that smoking is dangerous. Smoking can damage our body, For Example, your lungs, your brain, and your heart. The poisonous chemicals in a cigarette can cause death. Think about this, if you smoke you won't be able to run fast or jump as high if you can't breathe properly. Another problem is that you can get addicted easily by one of the chemicals called Nicotine. Nicotine can make you feel hyper sometimes. The more you smoke, the more you want to continue to smoke. Your body becomes physically dependent on the drug and begins to crave it.there are over 4,000 chemicals in a cigarette The Nicotine in a cigarette is also used in bug spray. Tar is an ingredient that gives cigarettes flavor. It's the same ingredient that people use to pave roads and driveways. Acetone is a common ingredient in a cigarette that is also used in nail polish remover.Carbon monoxide is a common pollutant and the same stuff that escapes from the exhaust in cars. Hydrazine is a chemical used in jets and rocket fuel.

Answer 4

Putting any foreign substance (even regular amounts of dust) into our lungs is very unhealthy. Smoking is a known carcinogen (cancer-causing agent). When it doesn't cause cancer, it always causes some form of lung disease (emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, etc). The older people you hear coughing at the store aren't just coughing; it's typical for them to have some form of lung disease after many years of smoking. It's never "too late" to stop!

When a young(er) person smokes, they feel they have time to live it up before any of this would happen, but smoking has a cumulative effect on all body systems. Smoking has been implicated in many types of cancer, not only lung cancer, and cancer can strike any age group.

Smoking also causes unavoidable wrinkles and sallow skin (appealing only to vanity). Life and health insurance skyrockets. Even if a smoker's insurance is provided by their employer, many employer plans are already asking if the applicant is a smoker, as the insurance industry tightens down on known serious health risks.

Smoking is also a known cause of heart disease because it causes hardening of the arteries. My mother was a pack-a-day smoker and I was floored when the doctor told me she had lung cancer when she was 48. When she died a year later, the funeral director even called me after her funeral to tell me how extremely hardened her arteries were when he embalmed her. This really hurt my feelings, but I knew it had to be extremely bad for him to make such a breach of etiquette in calling a grieving child. So if the lung cancer hadn't killed her at a young age, the heart disease most certainly would have.

I've never smoked a day in my life, so I can't speak to how difficult it is to quit. If I had to quit I would see my family doctor; there are plenty of prescription and other remedies available now to help with willpower and doctors can explain in graphic detail what smokers may just need to hear.

Answer 5

Everyone knows that smoking can cause cancer when you get older, but did you know that it also has bad effects on your body right now?

The killer habit measurably reduces the IQ of smokers over the course of their lifetime, according to a study spanning over 50 years

With the nicotine and tar working together, there are a lot of bad diseases linked to smoking cigarettes. Diseases like throat cancer, mouth cancer,Smoking is Bad for Bones.

Answer 6

for starters it is full of dangerous chemical and the longer you smoke tar from the smokes build up in your lungs

tobacco is a drug, but smoking it is not against the law (unless you are under age). For that matter, tea and coffee are also considered as drugs.


Smoking cigarettes can cause: Bronchitis
Emphysema
Lung Cancer
Heart disease


Smoking cigars can cause: Bronchitis
Cancer of the mouth
Heart disease

It is less likely to cause damage to the lungs because cigar smokers do not usually inhale very much smoke: it is too strong. They are less likely to "chain smoke".


Smoking a pipe can cause: Bronchitis
Cancer of the mouth or lips
Heart disease

Again, the smoke can be very strong, so pipe smokers are less likely to inhale the smoke.


Taking snuff can cause: Cancer of the nose
Heart disease


Smoking herbal tobacco can cause: Bronchitis
Emphysema
Lung cancer

You might have thought that herbal tobacco is safe. Well, it does not contain nicotine so that reduces the chances of getting heart disease, but there will still be tar in the smoke which can damage your lungs.


Most smokers are aware of the dangers of smoking. They may think that they have a right to smoke; after all, it is not against the law. Perhaps it is not so simple. When a smoker ends up in hospital needing treatment for emphysema, or lung cancer, their treatment costs money. The National Health Service is paid for out of our taxes. Their disease costs us money.

Answer 7

First of all, the person doesn't smoke, the cigarette smokes and all the person does is suck. It should be called what it is, "sucking." In light of this, smoking cigarettes are dangerous to our health because we breathe in the smoke from everyone that lights up. Pure tobacco is not really all that bad for you. It is the chemicals that they add to the tobacco that is so bad for you. These chemicals in small quantities are very poisonous.

Whether you suck through a straw on bad drinks like the energy drinks, soda pop that cause all kinds of health issues or suck on cigarettes where you are sucking in these chemicals, you are damaging your body. These toxins are cumulative and you will pay the price by shortening your life and if you live long enough, most likely develop a degenerative disease and destroy the quality of life in your old age.

So, smoking is not bad for you, it's the sucking that is.

good luck to you

Answer 8

Smoking introduces tar & chemicals right into our lungs.
They cannot keep up with filtering them out & they settle.
This not only reduces lung capacity to get oxygen;-{
but they damage cells & turn them cancerous eventually.
The nicotine found in tobacco is highly addictive;-{
& makes people continue seeking more through cravings.
Even second-hand smoke from someone else is dangerous.

Answer 9

It's dangerous on a number of levels. On the most basic, it decreases the amount of oxygen that reaches your body's cells. Ordinarily, we inhale air (oxygen and other gases)--and the oxygen hitchhikes on red blood cells to all of the body's cells. When you inhale cigarette smoke, carbon monoxide gloms onto the sites where oxygen belong. Cells require oxygen to carry out their basic life functions. Smoking impairs their ability to do so.

Next, inhaling pollutants into the lungs is an irritant. Long-term smoking usually results in some form of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (chronic bronchitis or emphysema) because of long-term exposure to these irritants.

The toxins in cigarette smoke can cause mutations in lung cells (and other cells)--which can result in cancer.

Smoking increases stomach acid production, making ulcers more common in smokers than in non-smokers.

The nicotine in cigarette smoke strongly affects blood vessels, causing constriction. When combined with the lower oxygen-carrying capacity of red blood cells, circulation to the body's cells, tissues, and organs is impaired.

In addition, constriction of blood vessels increases blood pressure. At the same time, smoking increases the viscosity ("thickness") of blood---increasing the risk of blood vessel obstruction by a clot. This raises the risk of heart attack and stroke.

This short list of smoking dangers wouldn't be complete without mention of its effect on the brain. Nicotine is a potent, addictive drug that is particularly insidious. It is the only drug that, depending on the user's subconscious behaviors (dragging more deeply or shallowly, smoking more or less, etc) can be either stimulating or relaxing-----making it very, very, very hard to quit.

Answer 10

Its because theyre probably expirimenting and then get addcited but its not cool at all Im 13! 13 AND SEE KIDS MY AGE SMOKE ill never ever ever ever smoke because if everyone actually found out whats in it and what it does to your lungs and it gives you mega wrinkles and bad teeth its made of tar TAR thats what my driveway is make of for crying out loud...when you see a guy working on a driveway with all those chemicals you wouldnt drink it! And Mercury for crying out loud talk about cancer causer! Its really sad to be honest... not to mention the influence on kids like me....I hope you and I made some people think because id be proud of myself if i opened even one persons eyes!