WHO estimates that tobacco users will increase to 1.9 billion in 2025 later. How many cigarettes waiting for potential victims?
Every 8 seconds, one person was killed in the world because of smoking. The cause is not just lung cancer and heart which are triggered by toxins that sprayed every puff smoke into the body, but also a stack of other diseases.
Cigarette smoke contains about 4,000 chemicals, such as nicotine, CO, NO, HCN, NH4, acrolein, acetilen, benzaldehyde, urethane, benzene, methanol, coumarin, etilkatehol-4, ortokresol, and others. In addition to the gas component, there is solid or particle component consisting of nicotine and tar.
Tar contain carcinogens which causes the cancer, while nicotine is addictive substances that causes addiction. Smoking habits that have proved associated with at least 25 types of disease in various organs, including respiratory tract cancers to lung, bladder, chronic bronchitis, and blood vessel disease. From a number of diseases that most of the deaths from lung cancer (87 percent), and chronic bronchitis (82 percent).
World Health Organization (WHO) notes, inhale toxic smoke causes dangerous diseases. The most commonly affects the heart and lungs. The main risk factor for heart attack, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema, and cancer (especially lung cancer, larynx cancer and mouth, and pancreatic cancer). Also causes peripheral vascular disease and hypertension.
