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Dangers of Smoking
DISADVANTAGE OF SMOKING

When the last time you see someone smoking?it seems today that most of the youngsters including some of us here think that smoking is something common and we do not have to worry about. But that thinking is wrong. According to history today, "each year, smoking kills more people than aids, alcohol, drug abuse, car crashes, murders, suicides and fires---combined!!"Over 430,000 U.S Citizens die each year from smoking. As college students, some of us smoke and some of us have differently thinking about smoking.

Do you know the content of a cigarette? Over 4,000 chemicals can be found in tobacco smoke includedradioactive materials (polonium-201) ,materials used in paints (acetone),floor cleaner (ammonia), mothball (naphthalene), pesticides , termite poison (arsenic), toxic gases (hydrogen cyanide) used in the "gas chamber death" of offenders under sentence of death, and more.

Today i want to inform to my audients about disadvantages of smoking. There is having 4 disadvantages of smoking:

Firstly, health problems. Health problems are the obvious disadvantage to smoking. The American Cancer Society warns about the dangers of nicotine addiction on their website. When you inhale the smoke from a cigarette, it is breathed deeply into your lungs. Smoking has been connected to several types of cancer, including lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and larynx cancer, as well as diseases such as emphysema and heart disease.

Secondly is smell. Smokers tend to have a distinctive smell because the tobacco odor clings to their hair and clothes. Their houses and vehicles also pick up the smell if they regularly smoke indoors at home or while driving. Nick Gromyko and Rob London of the National Association of Certified Home Inspectors explain that tobacco odors often persist long after cigarette smokers move out of a house because it saturates the living areas and circulates through the ventilation system.

Next is family disadvantage. When you

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