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Why Are Cigarettes So Addictive?

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Today people are suffering from other people’s choices. This will affect friends and family by giving them lung cancer and disease . This addiction is harming the lives of others. It is the problem in our society today. Smoking should be illegal.

Back in 2005, about 20% of the population smoked every day. The numbers have grown since then. Today people have spent a lot of money on surgery just to stop what they did to themselves and others. (quit.org) says that 23 kids have died of illness in 1998 related to second hand smoking. Still kids are being affected before they were even born. Women who smoke when pregnant can affect the baby by making them smaller and less healthy when born. Smoking has infected our society like it has to the smokers. …show more content…

In a cigarette there is a chemical called nicotine that is super addicting. The reason it is addictive is that the nicotine sends a message to the brain making the body half to have it or they will get sick and feel bad. The rest of the chemicals (which there are over 4,000 chemicals in a cigarette.) like tar and arsenic just do horrible things to your body. The tar sticks to your lungs making it very hard to breath. Arsenic is literally a poison, there are only little bits of it but it is super

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