1. SMOKING KILLS
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Facts About Smoking
According to the than malaria, tuberculosis,
WHO World Health Or- and HIV combined if cur-
ganization], there are rent smoking trends con-
more than a million people tinue. By the mid-2020s,
every year who only die the WHO predicts, 85% of
because of cigarette smok- all smokers will come from
ing. Worldwide, about 1.35 the world's poorer coun-
billion people smoke. The tries. If the WHO forecasts
world population statistic in are correct, smoking could
2009 stood at 6.8 billion become the world's biggest
meaning almost 20% of the Photo from http:// killer over the next 20
world’s population smokes cigarettesmokinginis- years, causing more
& 5 million deaths per year lam.blogspot.com/2011/05/ deaths than HIV, tuberculo-
in the world caused by facts-about-smoking.html sis, road accidents, murder
cigarette smoking. Around and suicide put together.
600,000 people die each Ambassador for Cancer According to the organiza-
year due to second hand Control: The tobacco use tion smoking-related dis-
Photo from http:// smoke. It means in every killed 100 million people in eases are killing 5 million
pu3w1tch.deviantart 6.5 seconds a current or the 20th century and people a year worldwide
.com/art/Smoking- former smoker dies. Nancy threatens to kill 1 billion and that number will raise
Kills-52580809 Brinker, WHO's Goodwill more in the 21st - more to 10 million a year in the
INSIDE
What’s Inside a Cigarette?
THIS ISS UE:
Facts About 1
Smoking
What’s In- 1- Tobacco smoke contains a 4000 chemicals which 60*C at the butts. This
side a Ciga- 2 substance called nicotine, when heated produce a lot heat breaks down the to-
rette a poisonous alkoid. It also of substances that cause bacco stuffed inside to
Harmful has substances such as irreparable damages to produce various toxins.
2
Effetcs of carbon monoxide, ac- the health. When a cigarette burns
Cigarettes rolien, ammonia, prussic the residues are concen-
acid, aldehydes and tar. A cigarette burns at trated towards the butt.
About the 2
Tobacco contains about 700*C at the tip and at To avoid excess inhaling
Author

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR What’s Inside a Cigarette?
Continuation from page 1
of tobacco products, the
concept of filters were
introduced by the manu-
facturers, and an im-
pression that filter ciga-
rettes are harmless was
created. But it has been
Monalisa Rexandria B. proved that filters can-
Baldeo is currently a not altogether stop the
substances getting in-
5th year student tak- side. However the intake
ing up Bachelor of will be reduced by the Photo from http://
Sports Science in Col- quality of filter. cigarettesmokinginislam.blogspot.com/2011/05/facts-about-
smoking.html
lege of Human Kinet-
ics in UP Diliman. She
Harmful Effects of Cigarettes
was a varsity member
of the UP Women’s
Football Team since
2007 until 2010. She Smoking cigarettes once
believes to the saying was accepted as part of a
trendy lifestyle. However,
that
with the research and
findings of the past few
“ The greatest wealth decades, it's become well
is health. ~Virgil “. -known that the adverse
effects of smoking are
much dangerous than
once thought. Some of
harmful effects of smok
ing are tar, heart disease,
lack of oxygen, bronchitis
and emphysema and cancer.
“ Smoking is like
suicide… it is death in
anticipation.”
These are the harmful effects of smoking in our body
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SMOKING KILLS