Essay On Side Effects Of Smoking

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Lots of people smoke, but do you really know the consequences of smoking, Do you know the damage you are doing to your body? Let me explain the side effects of smoking.
More than 443,000 people die annually because of smoking cigarettes. Thats like …

Nicotine is the addictive substance in tobacco, that causes smokers to continue with their smoking habit. Along with nicotine, smokers inhale about another 7,000 more chemicals. These chemicals harm nearly every single organ in our bodies, therefore causing many diseases and reducing our health and life expectancy which is approximately . Addicted smokers need to satisfy their cravings or control their mood, they need enough nicotine over a day to make them feel normal, that, is the reason …show more content…

It can also cause leukemia and other chronic diseases such as, having a stroke, blindness, gum infection, aortic rupture, heart disease, pneumonia, hardening of the arteries, reduced fertility, hip fracture, chronic lung disease and asthma.
"Tobacco use, accounts for at least 30% of ALL cancer deaths, causing 87% of lung cancer deaths in men, and 70% of lung cancer deaths in women. Lung cancer is the most preventable form of cancer death in the world". (Source: Cancer Facts & Figures 2014)

Hon Lik 's father passed away due to lung cancer because he was a heavy smoker. After his death Lik realized that smoking was a really big problem, so he decided to do something about this problem and later on designed in 2003 and invented in 2004, the e cigarettes, it was a good idea, but was the result as effective and healthy as planned.

Lighting a regular cigarette causes the tobacco and chemicals inside it to burn, releasing a harmful smoke that contains nicotine.
Lets call the person that is smoking this cigarette Tom, when Tom inhales the smoke, this smoke is delivered to his lungs. An electronic cigarette doesn 't rely on this process of combustion?. Instead, it heats a nicotine liquid that is found on e cigarettes and it converts this liquid to a vapor, that the owner will then

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