The International E-magazine on Adolescent Health; Nutrition and Your Circulatory and Respiratory Systems (e.gMarch.2014) | Page 6

DIFFERENT  CARCINOGENS  FOUND   IN  CIGARETTE  SMOKE Smoking may be a pretty bad idea, many people do it to be cool, accepted or others simply to calm down during nervous moments. The reality is that it may be affecting your body more what you think. The cigarettes are made of many substances (carcinogens) that are toxic and that may harm you. Some chemicals are Benzene this substance is very harmful because that could cause you leukemia in humans, Formaldehyde this chemical is used to conserve dead bodies also cause eye problems, Tar could produce cancer and make your teeth yellow, Arsenic this is one of the most dangerous because could cause cancer as well damage in the blood vessels, Cadmium is used to make batteries this may cause damage in the arteries, Chromium also cause cancer, Hydrogen Cyanide this cause risk in cancer by damaging cilia, Carbon Monoxide this stick to the red blood cells and harm the respiratory system and Nitrogen Oxide could affect the lungs this affects also people that breath the smoke. These are just some of the chemicals that the cigarettes have and are one of the most dangerous that have the ciggarets, but in the most important that people say it’s the most dangerous is the nicotine, an addictive drug that causes smokers to continue to smoke and each time it makes it more difficult to leave it. Also some of the carcinogens that the cigarrete has can make you get lung tumors and eventually get lung cancer. The main disease for smoking that everybody already knows is lung cancer and it is difficult to treat and its difficult to remove it from your body. By smoking you can hurt your circulatory system, it can cause to raise blood pressure and heart rate by making the arteries smaller and also it could cause a heart attack, your skin temperature may drop, less oxygen would be carried by the blood, the blood flow through our extremities of the body would reduce and at last but not least, the risk of getting a stroke or a heart attack will increase. Apart from the circulatory system, you can also hurt your respiratory