How Do Cigarettes Affect The Human Body

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There are a lot of people out there that smoke cigarettes. Whether it is daily or just once in awhile. Then there 's a group of people that don 't know that smoking cigarettes can cause to the human body. Cigarette smoking is such a common thing to see all around us. We see it in adults, teens, and even young kids. Throughout my High School career, I have seen that we have all encountered the option to smoke, whether it 's at parties or even our households. It is all around us. What a lot of those smokers don 't realize is the effect that it is causing to their bodies. The reason why I choose this topic is because I see that there are a lot of smokers that don 't know what they are smoking. Yes, they know its tobacco, but they don 't know what else is in that cigarette. I have family members that smoke and I can see how much they have change throughout the years not only mentally but physically as well. I feel like they don 't understand the damages that it can do or it has already done to their body. It is not just in them that these changes can be seen, it 's seen in almost every smoker. I know that this is a tough topic to cover because a lot of people have different opinions of it and were not all going to …show more content…
It is not just the smokers body that it is affecting though. There is Second hand smoke that is also involved on all of this. Second hand smoke is smoke that is inhaled involuntarily from tobacco being smoked by others. Just because you have never smoked a cigarette that doesn 't mean that you have never been exposed to the smoke being inside your system. Second hand smoke is still as dangerous as smoking a regular pack of cigarettes. By hanging around smokers or even near a smoker your have a great chance of the exposure of the smoke. Second hand smoke isn 't just found in adults but in children and teens as

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