Cause And Effect Of Smoking

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Causes of Smoking & Effects
Frederick Hurtado
English 100
10/15/2015

People still smoke cigarettes; why do they do it? Most people don’t realize how dangerous it really is. The dangerous smoke that citizens are putting in their lungs is highly addictive and extremely toxic. Tobacco products contain nicotine, and nicotine is very addictive. It also contains about four-thousand chemicals. Most of those chemicals we can find today in our homes. Smoking is also known to causes diseases, pre mature deaths and can affect your lifestyle if smoking starts to become a habit.
There are many young citizens and adults that end up getting addicted to smoking cigarettes. This impacts young teenagers because that’s where the Tobacco companies really aim
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Or there’s people that cause them to smoke for pleasure or for a stress relief. This really reflects to younger teenagers because they end up smoking because they hang out with the wrong group of people. Then they end up peer pressuring them to try it once or just them to try it once or just to fit in with the rest of them because they feel left out and want to feel cool. Next thing that same kid is addicted to cigarettes all because he/she wanted to feel cool. Other people end up smoking cigarettes is because they feel smoking calms them down but really there just killing themselves into a slow …show more content…
Once people are hooked it’s hard to stop smoking cigarettes because in a cigarette they put the most addictive chemical that gets you hooked which is nicotine. Nicotine is highly addictive it acts up in your brain and through the body. Smoking frequently can cause mentally addiction which soon it becomes a lot harder for users to quit or put down. Overtime smoking can cause breathing defects in your lungs which then can make it difficult to breathe which that can lead you to be put on an oxygen tank. This would impact and effect any individual and their quality of life because they would always have to be on the oxygen tank. So always think twice before puffing

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