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Cigarettes are made of tobacco. Even when you smoke a pipe, you burn tobacco. Some chew tobacco. Whatever said and done, much use is made of tobacco. Tobacco is sticky and brown in color.

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Deaths occur due to use of tobacco.Smoking causes lung cancer. One can suffer from cardiovascular diseases by smoking, as nicotine is bad for health. Nicotine in tobacco is addictive. It causes high blood pressure, increase in heart rate and slows down circulation. Stains the teeth and is bad for dental care. Bad breath.

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Respiratory as well as circulatory problems can develop due to smoking .Smoking causes cancer. Blindness is also another effect of smoking. Tobacco contains carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrogen as well as nitrogen. Tobacco contains Hydrogen Cyanide, which damages the lung-clearing system. Nicotine affects appetite, thus causing hyperglycemia.

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Tobacco is linked up with certain disease such as diabetes, vision problems, ulcers and back pain.Early menopause, osteoporosis, fertility and menstrual problems are also some of the negative effects of tobacco usage. Decreased fertility.

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Impotence among men. Children suffer from the secondhand smoke that is let out by smokers. It contains harmful chemicals, which are bad for health. Chronic bronchitis.

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Tobacco benefits us in many ways, but also affects our health in a negative manner. Those addicted to tobacco are at risk of developing serious health problems. But for the growth of the economy, the tobacco industry is very essential.

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Tobacco toxins



There are over 4000 chemicals in tobacco out of witch a 100 are identified poisons and 63 are known carcinogens. Nicotin is often pointed out as the most dangerous substance in tobacco but there are others which include:

Arsenic, Cyanide, Carbon monoxide (found in car exhaust fumes) Formaldehyde (used to embalm bodies), Ammonia Bromide (a toilet cleaner )
Incidence of smoking



Each year, an estimated 3,000 nonsmoking Americans die of lung cancer, and 300,000 children suffer from lower respiratory tract infections because they inhaled the so called “secondhand smoke”. The term “secondhand smoke” refers to inhaling the smoke coming from the cigarettes that someone else is smokingMore than 5 million children living today will die prematurely because of the decision to use tobacco and smoke cigarettes. More than 3 million people under the age 18 smoke half a billion cigarettes each year and more than a half of them consider themselves dependent upon cigarettes.The history of tobacco smoking

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Health effects of tobacco smoking



The health effects of tobacco smoking are related to the direct tobacco smoking, as well as passive smoking, inhalation of environmental or secondhand tobacco smoke. When the cigarette smoke is inhaled, thousands of chemicals get into your bloodstream and travel throughout your body. These chemicals cause damage to different parts of the body:




Eyes




It is proven that different chemicals in tobacco can cause damage to the macula, which represents the most sensitive part of the retina. The tiny blood vessels can burst through the macula, leading to irreversible damage. Smoking also causes morphological and functional changes to the lens and retina due to its atherosclerotic and thrombotic effects on the ocular capillaries.

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