Smoking can restrict the blood supply to the lower spine, leading to chronic back pain, and also can slow recovery from bone surgery.
The ingredients and additives in cigarettes when burned, create toxic, harmful chemical compounds. There are over 4000 chemicals in cigarette smoke, and more than 40 of them are known carcinogens.
Tar Yes, the same thing they use to pave streets and driveways. Ever notice how smoker's teeth are yellow? Tar is responsible for that.
Hydrogen Cyanide is used to kill rats and it was used during WWII as a genocidal agent. Smokers inhale it with every puff.
Benzene This chemical is used in manufacturing gasoline.
Acetone It's in nail polish remover and it's in cigarettes. Yum!
Formaldehyde This is what they use to preserve dead bodies. It's also used as an industrial fungicide, is a disinfectant, and is used in glues and adhesives.
Ammonia. We use this chemical to clean our houses.
Carbon Monoxide It's in car exhaust, and it's in cigarette smoke.
And of course, there is Nicotine, the drug responsible for an addiction that smokers spend years and years trying to break.
Smoking makes its biggest assault on the lungs. People with Chronic Obstructed Pulmonary Disease or Emphysema often end up on oxygen and cannot live a normal life. Many can't walk a few feet without having to sit down and try to catch their breath. Cancer that starts in the lungs of many smokers can often have devastating effects, spreading throughout the body to involve the liver, kidneys, bones, and brain.
Arent you afraid of your family's future? your own health?




I think you are probably preaching to the converted on this site!
I do not have any friends in my immediate 'circle' of about 30 friends that smoke - although some did a number of years ago. Luckily I never took it up, although I dabbled briefly when I was a teenager. How people can afford the habit nowadays is a mystery to me.