Negative effects of cigarette smoking

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As advertisements say, Cigarette smoking is bad for your health. Please read these cigarette smoking facts. Would you still light that cigarette?1. Cigarette smoking effects are now well known and widely documented. The harmful, negative health effects of smoking cigarettes are said to reduce a smoker’s life expectancy by an average of 10-12 minutes per cigarette!2. In the USA over 500,000 smokers die each year from a smoking-related illness. Every 8 seconds, somewhere in the world, a smoker dies from a smoking-related disease. 3. Cigarette smoking effects include being the main cause of lung cancer. Lung Cancer is the main contributor in smoking related deaths. This disease is extremely difficult to cure, up to 90% of smokers diagnosed with one of the four major types of lung cancers will die as a direct result of the negative health effects of smoking cigarettes.Generally, cancer in smokers is caused by some of the approximately 4,000 chemicals found in cigarette smoke 4. Nicotine is a chemical substance found in tobacco. Addiction to nicotine is what you keeps you smoking. There are more than 50 cancer causing carcinogens in the tar of cigarette smoke. Nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide are all well known ingredients. 5. Heart disease is the second major cause of death in smokers. Smoking speeds up the process of hardening of the arteries. Smokers are up to 4 times more likely to be effected and die of a major heart attack. 6. Cigarette smoking effects are manifold and definitely not benign! As well as the addictive nature of the nicotine content, the negative health effects of smoking cigarettes include (90% fatal) lung cancers, heart disease, gangrene, emphysema, and possible blindness.