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about how many ciggarette packs do you need to smoke, in order for you to experience health side affects from it?
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You shouldn't smoke at all.
Cigarettes are made of:
Three Main Components of Cigarettes
Cigarette smoke - What people who smoke and those around them inhale when having a cigarette, contains three main ingredients: nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide. Here's a little more information about those ingredients:
Nicotine: This is the addictive component of tobacco. It is absorbed into the blood and affects the brain within 10 seconds. It causes smokers to feel good because of the neurotransmitters (chemicals in the brain) that it releases. It also causes a surge of heart rate, blood pressure, and adrenaline (which also feels good). Unfortunately, because of the nature of addiction, when the effects of nicotine on the brain and body wear off, the smoker feels worse than before. This reinforces the craving for another cigarette.
Tar: Tar itself contains many poisonous substances to the body. It is a thick, sticky substance, and when inhaled it sticks to the tiny hairs on the lungs, the cilia. These normally protect the lungs from dirt and infection, but when covered in tar they can't do their job. Tar also coats the walls of the whole respiration system, narrowing the tubes that transport air (the bronchioles) and reducing elasticity of the lungs.
Carbon Monoxide: Carbon monoxide is the poisonous chemical found in car exhaust fumes. It decreases the amount of oxygen in the blood, which deprives all the organs of oxygen too. Because there's less oxygen in the blood, it gets thicker and puts a strain on the heart to pump.
Other Components of Cigarettes
Other toxic components of cigarettes include:
Benzene - a solvent used in (fuel) and chemical manufacturing
Formaldehyde - a very poisonous liquid that is used to (preserve dead bodies)
Ammonia - a chemical found in (cleaning fluids)
Hydrogen cyanide - a (poison) used as a fumigant to kill ants. It is also used to manufacture plastics, dyes, and pesticides
Cadmium - an extremely poisonous and radioactive metal found in (batteries)
Acetone - a corrosive liquid solvent found in (nail polish remover)
Arsenic - another ingredient in (rat poison)
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There isn't a specific number, actually, because every single cigarette you smoke increases your chances of having health problems significantly.
In fact, I don't remember where I heard this, but after one cigarette, you're 50% more likely to develop lung cancer than someone who has never had a cigarette.
My mom used to smoke in college and she stopped cold turkey after she realized the side effects of it.
My grandfather used to smoke, but he quit in one day after he found out my older brother had asthma. And he hasn't had a cigarette since.
All in all, smoking is just really bad for you, and I really don't recommend you start.
**EDIT**
It's never too late to quit! =]
--Jack
(17/m)
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Wise words from a trying to quit smoker:
Don't start.
It's nasty.
It stinks.
It's very hard to quit.
EVERY cigarette does damage.
You just don't realize it until you can't breathe,
you have to cough up a lung and hork loogies every morning,
your teeth and fingers are stained,
and every chest cold feels 10 times worse while taking far longer to get over.
There are worse things than all that, too. But it all boils down to how all of that nasty stuff starts with ONE cigarette.
They do damage from DAY ONE.
ygs-30/f
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