The International E-magazine on Adolescent Health; Skin and Skeletal-Muscular Systems II | Page 4
Smoking is harmful
Smoking is one of the major
major cause of leukemia, which
causes of breathing problems in
affects
society and it gives lung and mouth
Benzene is mostly known as a
cancer,
your
colorless, flammable liquid with a
respiratory and circulatory system
sweet odor. A natural process for
damaging it forever. When our
example in a volcano forms it. It is
parents were young or even before
among the top 20 chemicals most
they were born, people thought that
used in the United States.
it
directly
affects
your
circulatory
system.
cigarettes only relaxed people. Now
a days there are more places for
Finally, smoking is a bad habit that
“Not
people
causes many diseases in both your
already know that smoking causes
respiratory system and circulatory
death, cancer and many more
system which most of them lead to
diseases that no one wants to
death such as cancer. If you stop
have, but still people smoke.
smoking you can prevent many
Smoking”
because
diseases and the best part of it is
Various
harmful
chemicals
you save more life to yourself to live
compose a cigarette for the human
instead of killing yourself by doing
being. These chemicals are more
such thing.
commonly known by carcinogens
because
of
their
capability
of
damaging the human tissues until
they provoke cancer. One of the
most
known
carcinogens
is
Ethylene oxide. The past years
some human cancer data shows
and increase on leukemia due to
this chemical. Another carcinogen
is formaldehyde. This substance at
long-term usage, causes nose and
throat cancer. If symptoms are
exposed you should take it as a
warning to stop using it. Another
carcinogen is benzene and it is the
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