Smoking: A pleasure which kills…

Smoking: A pleasure which kills…

Chemical substances contained in cigarette.         

Nicotine Pitch Carbon dioxide Carbon monoxide Heterocyclic hydrocarbons Polyaromatic hydrocarbons Radioactive elements Aldehyds Cancerigenic compounds

Diseases that smoking can cause.             

Cancer (skin, stomach, oral cavity, respiratory system, alimentary canal.) Loss of hair Cataract Loss of hearing Ageing of skin Defected teeth Emphysema of lungs Osteoporosis Heart problems Stomach ulcer Discoloration of fingers Psoriasis Burger disease

The way nicotine affects some of the above damages.  Heart problems →Nicotine makes vessels narrower and causes emission of hormones.  Breathing difficulties →nicotine contains carbon monoxide, which is more convenient to be united with the blood’s haimoglobene than oxygen.  Cancer of oral cavity→ genitival modification of the mouth’s, throat’s or gums’ cells.

Smoking and statistics.

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33% of the students in the High Senior School have smoked for at least once and 20, 8% in High Senior School and Junior High School, smoke systematically. 64% of the students smoke for reasons of showing off, 60% because of their character’s weakness and only 25% because they think of cigarette as a symbol of maturity. Smoking is responsible for the 30% of the cancers that people suffer from and for the 85% of the lung cancers. Finally, smoking is responsible for 3.500.000 deaths every year globally, or, in other words for 10.000 deaths every day!!!

Passive smoking.

 Passive smoking →the procedure during which a non- smoker inhales all the smog of a smoker.  3.000 people die every year only in Greece because of the passive smoking.  Only a 15% of the smog is inhaled by the smoker. The rest 85% fills up the room and is inhaled by the other people that stay in it .

Smoking and sports.  Smoking makes exercise harder than it is and causes many difficulties to athletes.  Also, smoking does not suit to what sports represent.

 Stop smoking, or not starting this, is very important for our health, as we don’t want to be like this:

Or these:

But like these:

Stop smoking!!