Topic: Quit SmokingWhat's in Your cigarette?
Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 chemical compounds, including 60 that can cause cancer.
Many toxic agents are also in cigarettes, some of which are manufactured during the smoking process
itself. A lighted cigarette generates more than 150 billion tar particles per cubic inch, making
up the visible portion of cigarette smoke.
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Why to Quit Smoking ?
When someone tells you about a friend or family member having cancer, you often hear someone say,
"He has cancer." Yet, cancer isn't just one disease. There are, in fact, more than 200 different cancers,
and each kind can originate in any cell or organ in the body. All cancers have one thing in common - abnormal,
uncontrolled cell growth...
According to chemists at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, cigarette smoke is 10,000 times more concentrated
than the automobile pollution at rush hour on a freeway. Visible smoke, however, contributes only 5 percent
to 8 percent to the total output of a cigarette. What you can't see are the so-called vapors or gases in
the cigarette smoke. Besides nitrogen and oxygen, the vapor contains toxic gases such
as carbon monoxide,
formaldehyde, acrolein, hydrogen cyanide, and nitrogen oxides. There are countless more.
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