Each year, found 2.2 million deaths from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) worldwide. And the disease they got from the habit of smoking that has been done for years. The death rate due to smoking each year will continue to increase as the number of smokers.
Why smoking can trigger the onset of the disease? Whether the chemicals in cigarettes?
If you think that nicotine is the only content of cigarettes is harmful in cigarettes, it extremely wrong. Nicotine is the addictive component of tobacco. It is absorbed into the blood and affects the brain within 10 seconds. This causes the smoker to feel relaxed because of the reaction on neurotransmitters. It also led to a wave of heart rate, blood pressure, and adrenaline (which also feels good). Consequently, the nature of nicotine dependence in the brain and the body is temporarily lost. Smokers feel worse if they do not smoke. This is what strengthens the desire to smoke again.
Overall, smoking is a complex mixture of compounds produced by burning tobacco and addictive. Apart from the usual stimulant nicotine, cigarette smoke also contains tar that consists of more than 4000 chemicals, including some 60 carcinogenic chemicals are dangerous. Almost all types of substances, deadly. These substances that cause lung disease, heart disease, emphysema and other dangerous diseases.
From many of these chemicals, there are three types of toxic chemicals, the most deadly in cigarette smoke. These materials are tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide. Tar can irritate the lungs and cause cancer. Nicotine is a poison that causes addiction. Substances that can join with other toxic substances can cause constriction of blood vessels. While carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas that prevents the ingress of oxygen into the body.
In addition to these chemicals, other chemicals in cigarettes are:
- Ammonia: Used to increase the level of nicotine absorption. This chemical is a substance used to clean toilets
- Arsenic: Used as a pesticide plant tobacco. These chemicals are kept attached to the tobacco that has become a cigarette. Arsenic is also used to kill rats.
- Cadmium: A mixture of metals found in tobacco.
- Formaldehyde: There is in cigarette smoke. This colorless gas is usually used to preserve dead bodies.
- Acetone: Produced from the burning cigarette. Used to clean toilets as well.
- Butane: Manufactured from matchsticks.
- Propylene Glycol: Used on cigarettes to keep them dry. Can increase the speed of delivery of nicotine to destroy the brain.
- Turpentine: Used on menthol cigarettes. Used also to paint and wood varnish.
- Benzene: Created from a burning cigarette. Can also be found in pesticides and gasoline
- Tin and Nickel: Yes, this is a metal. Need more explanation?
- > 3987 other chemicals. . .
If you love yourself, love the family, care about the people around you, and your environment..... Immediately Stop Smoking!
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