Benzene, formaldehyde, methanol, acetylene, ammonia, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, cyanide. If you saw these chemicals in a factory, you would not want to go near them.
But every cigarette you smoke is packed with those chemicals, carried straight into your lungs by the tar in tobacco smoke. That tar is made up of over 4,000 chemicals of which 43 are known to cause cancer.
In America, one out of every three cancer deaths is caused by tobacco. Smoking is responsible for almost 90% of lung cancers among men and more than 70% among women. Further it has been estimated that chronic bronchitis and emphysema which is caused due to smoking killed more than 27 lakh people worldwide in the year 2000.
If smoking related cancer spares your lungs, it can still attack your mouth, larynx, esophagus, kidney and bladder.
Finally, smoking doubles your chance of getting heart disease. Anyone who continues smoking after one heart attack is guaranteed another.
Most smokers know some of these terrible facts yet they cannot stop. Four out of five smoker try several times before they somehow stop for good.
I AM
PROUD
I AM
NOT A SMOKER