Why Cigarettes Can Kill

January 7, 2010 by admin  
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Had countless studies conducted to determine the impact of smoking on physical and emotional health. An estimated one-fifth of people in the world die each year because of diseases related to smoking.

If not to kill, at least not smoking will reduce your rights to healthy longer. In addition, smoking will also exacerbate the disease you are suffering.

Studies show that cigarette smoke contains some 4,000 chemicals, including various toxic in very small doses. In every puff, these toxins will enter through the lungs, and then forward it to the whole body through blood vessels. Some of these toxins known as free radicals.

The latest research done by researchers from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan showed that carcinogenic substances in cigarettes, called NNK causes lung cancer.
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