The Dangers of Burning Tobacco and Negative Effects of Smoking on Health

Vaping or smoking, in general, has many dangers. One of the dangers that smoking has is that it can cause lung cancer. By damaging the small air sacs that are found in our lunges. Cancer is an awful thing to get. When you get cancer you may face many problems and challenges. Cancer is a really hard thing to cure and to cure it you need to pay a huge amount of money and you never know if you'll be able to survive so all the money that you paid might go to waste.

What are popcorn lungs: Popcorn lung is a nickname for something called bronchiolitis obliterans. This condition can damage your lungs' tiniest airways and makes you cough and feel short of breath. It can be caused sometimes by breathing in chemicals. It was also used to flavor the microwave popcorn. What causes popcorn lungs: The chemical that gave this condition its nickname is diacetyl. At first, people used to use it to give microwave popcorn a flavor but people realized that it has bronchiolitis obliterans so they stopped using it.

People use diacetyl in e-cigarettes companies. How does smoking affect a human: smoking can affect humans in many ways Such as: coughing heavily, getting colds, getting asthma, breathing becomes hard. It makes you age faster, poor vision gives you anxiety, gives you a dull sense of smell and taste, makes you lose your appetite, gives you high cholesterol. Tobacco can affect a person depending on their size, weight, health and also if the person is used to taking it or not.

Burning Tobacco

Burning tobacco produces more than 4,000 chemicals, including nicotine, carbon monoxide, and tars. These chemicals can transform normal cells into cancer cells. Cigarettes contain about 600 ingredients, many of which can also be found in cigars and shisha. When those ingredients burn they generate more than 7,000 chemicals. Many of those chemicals are poisonous and at least 69 percent of them are linked to cancer.

Why people start smoking:

• Their friends smoke
• They think that smoking is a grown-up thing to do tobacco advertising in films, magazines, TV, sports, and posters showed smoking as being cool, smart, tough and the adult thing to do.
• Smoking was allowed in public places
• People would buy cigarettes for a really cheap prize

People say that they continue to smoke because of it:

• It helps them relax
• It helps them concentrate
• It helps them keep calm when they are under pressure

What are the chemicals in a cigarette:

• Nicotine
• Tar
• ‘Carbon monoxide
• Arsenic
• Ammonia
• Acetone
• Methylamine
• Pesticides
• Polonium – 210
• Methanol

Smoking caused Approximately 480,000 deaths per year which is a really huge amount of deaths that can happen per year. Smoking has caused many issues to people and they are either still suffering from those issues or died from them. That's why people should never smoke and never try smoking because if they do they will cause a huge problem for their self and their family.