Health Risks of Smoking Cigarettes
Sunday, June 27th, 2010Are you thinking of picking up a cigarette? If you are already a smoker, are you trying to come up with reasons to quit? Well, feast your eyes on this menu of tasty ingredients that cigarettes are composed of.
A cigarette has in it nail polish remover, floor and toilet cleaner, car exhaust fumes, insecticide, gas chamber poison, candle wax. So, are you still interested to start smoking? If even the answer is a positive one then you should get hold of electronic cigarettes .As a matter of fact, the e-cig pocket kits are available for purchase online.
Smoking causes bad breath, staining of teeth, chronic coughing, throat soaring, increased heart rate, risk of exposing people around you to secondhand smoke and risk of fines. The long term effects of smoking are cancer, heart disease, gum disease, pre-term births in pregnant woman, increased risk of stomach ulcers, increased wrinkles in the skin and breathing problems.
The expectancy of your life is highly affected by each cigarette you smoke. Every cigarette steals seven minutes of a smoker’s life-adding up to five million years of potential life lost to cigarettes each year. Every 13 seconds, someone in the world dies from a tobacco-related illness.
Smoking causes more deaths every year than alcohol, car accidents, AIDS, suicide, homicides, fires, cocaine/crack and heroin combined. Over 440,000 people die each year in the United States from smoking cigarettes. Around 300 people die each day in the United Kingdom due to smoking, and most of them are young smokers.
Is it worth it to take a step towards death willingly with every puff of the cigarettes? Do you want to lose seven to eight years of your life because of this bad habit? Have you thought what would happen to your family if you die? As we all know “Health is Wealth” and smoking would only kill you. To live a healthy life with your family and friends, you need to quit your bad habit of smoking.