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Knowing The Harm That Cigarettes Do To The Human Body

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Why are cigarettes still being made knowing the harm that cigarettes do to the human body? In the United States, smoking is the leading cause of premature preventable death and disease in the United States. For an average male who smokes cigarettes tale about 13.2 years of their lives. For average women, cigarettes take about 14.5 years of their lives. 480,000 Americans each year die from smoking cigarettes. Not only do people die from smoking cigarettes, but more than 41,000 people die each year from the exposure to secondhand smoke (Burden of Tobacco Use in the U.S). 9 out of 10 smokers start before the age of 18, which needs to be put to a stop. Everyone's life is at risk when its comes to smoking and inhaling the smoke. We have all had the exposure to cigarette smoke, and every time the chances of us getting affected by the smoke rise every time. Smoking should be illegal because smoking causes damage to every organ in the human body, there are at least 70 chemicals that cause cancer (Health Risks of Secondhand Smoke), and how many people are affected and even killed from smoking. Most of the chemicals inhaled from smoking a cigarette stay in your lungs. Cigarette smoke …show more content…

Your circulation, your brain, your heart, your lungs, your stomach, your mouth, your throat, your bones, and your skin are all affected by cigarettes. One of the most affected organs is your lungs. Smoking causes mucus to build up in your lungs which make it a lol harder to breathe. Your lungs will eventually turn hard and black leading to cancer. Smoking causes 84% of the deaths that come from lung cancer (How smoking affects your body). Smoking is the leading cause of cancer. Even though there are 70 chemicals that can cause cancer in cigarettes there are about 250 that are harmful to the human body. The exposure to smoke makes your chances of getting lung cancer rise by 15-30% (Lung

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