Do you know anyone who is a drug addict? Yep! The chances are you do, therefore think very carefully before answering NO to this question because without realising it, you probably do.He or she could be your parent, an aunt or uncle, the older brother or sister and even your personal friend.
Every day millions of these addicts will pop into shops all over the world to buy their daily fix but the funny thing is that they won’t be breaking any laws.Unlike herion or cannabis, their favourite drug is quite legal, very easy to obtain and relatively affordable than most drugs.It is called tabacco and these addicts are called smokers! Does the names sound familiar to you?Good!
Well let us proceed! Tabacco contains at least 1,000 different substances many of which are known to be harmful.When these substances are inhaled, they affect the body in several different ways.Tar for instance, collects in the lungs depositing hundreds of chemicals on their sensitive lining.Many of these substances are known to be number one cause of cancer in the human entire race.Carbon monoxide is also found in tabacco smoke, which is the same deadly gas that is emitted in car exhaust fumes and once in the blood stream, it combines with haemoglobin( the substance which carries oxygen in the blood) two hundred times more readily than oxygen does, thus reducing the blood’s ability to carry oxygen.This can be very harmful and particular dangerous for people with heart conditions.
Amongst the other harmful chemicals in tabacco smoking is ammonia ( sometimes used in the manufacture of explosives) which is corrosive, poisonous and a severe irritant. However the actual drug in tabacco is called nicotine, named after a sixteenth century French ambassador to Portugal, Jean Nicot.Most experts believe nicotine to be more addictive than even heroin.It is also one of kill an adult if injected into the blood stream.As a drug it has both a stimulating and tranquillizing effect, which means that smokers can use it either to calm down or to keep working under pressure.When the smoke from a cigarette is inhaled, nicotine is quickly absorbed into the blood stream where it can harm the heart, the blood vessels and the nervous system.
“Well, you now know the facts” but even though despite the damage tabacco can do to your your body, millions of people around the world still adamantly refuse to stop smoking.The result is that every year 100,000 people ( that is one person every five minutes) die unnecessarily from heavy smoking.”So what it’s going to be”, Either quit or become one of the victims of a drug that is every bit as dangerous and addictive as heroin but as easy to buy as a box of chocolates.”Happy Quitting”
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