Don't Smoke and you Wont Choke
By: Kayla Nicole
Cigarettes ruin EVERYTHING!
Once Cigarettes were considered cool, attractive, and good for your health. Now they're considered nasty, and addictive habit. When you do cigarettes they take away EVERYTHING! Every time you take a cigarette they can knock off from 5-20 minutes off your life. They contain over 500 chemicals. The main chemicals people are familiar with are...
- Acetone-nail polish remover
- Ammonia- Household cleaner
- Arsenic-Used in rat poisons and bullets
- Butane- Gas; used in lighter fluid
- Carbon monoxide-Poisonous gas
- Cadmium- Used in batteries
- Cresol-Used in making bombs
and many more.
Why Smoke?
There are nearly 400,000 deaths each year are caused by smoking. When you smoke it makes your teeth and nails more yellow, and make you and your clothes smell bad. Smoking puts holes in your lungs and brain. Everytime you smoke it shortens your life. So why smoke you know its bad for you.
Look what cigarettes can do to you.
These former smokers knew what smoking could do and still smoked. In a result they have scars, breathing problems, cant speak, some have to carry oxygen tanks around. There are even people that lose parts of their body from smoking.
CDC: Tips from Former Smokers - Roosevelt's Ad
CDC: Tips from Former Smokers - Buerger's Disease Ad
Not just you but Others
People can get surgery, heart attacks, and die from second hand smoke. When you smoke around people and children they breath in EVERYTHING that you are smoking. It kills them slowly and they can lose their body parts and their life because of you smoking. The video below shows that by Jessica smoking it triggered her sons asthma that now he has to stay in the hospital and he is constantly in and out, taking pills and all these treatments.
CDC: Tips from Former Smokers - Jessica's Asthma Ad