Numerous substances that preserve or affect the quality and taste of cigarettes are added to tobacco products. Combustion produces smoke with the mixture tarwhich contains ingredients with proven carcinogenic effect. Moreover, it is estimated that the life expectancy of smokers is at least 10 years shorter than that of non-smokers.
How does smoking affect your health?
As we know, tobacco smoke contains psychoactive substances nicotine and toxic ingredients such as acetone, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, ammonia, carbon monoxide or DDT. It should be noted that they do not only adversely affect the respiratory system, but the entire body. Primarily, by burning tobacco, a chemical reaction takes place that turns the ingredients into particles embedded in cigarette smoke.
In turn inhaling this smoke results in a gradual penetration tar inside the lungs. This process leads to mutagenic and carcinogenic cell changes responsible, inter alia, for neoplastic diseases.
What diseases can cigarettes cause?
- asthma,
- bronchitis and pneumonia,
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
- coronary artery disease,
- myocardial infarction,
- tumor,
- stomach and duodenal ulcers,
- allergy,
- atherosclerosis,
- hypertension.
Addiction to nicotine
Nicotine has a strong addictive effect, which significantly reduces the quality of life. This psychoactive substance causes an artificial spike in dopamine, creating an impression of happiness.
After smoking a cigarette, nicotine quickly disappears from the body, thus arousing nicotine craving, which is responsible for the unpleasant feeling. This is why smokers reach for another cigarette to feel good again.
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