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Harmful Effects of Smoking
It is very easy for everyone to find out the very common thing of public places – the two popular words sticked on the wall – “NO SMOKING”. However, it is the truth that only ¼ of people seeing that sign care about its real meaning. Everyone says that “Smoking is harmful to people’s health”. Everyone knows that delicious cigarettes can cause lung cancer, heart failure and make bad impressions on others. Actually, none can tell exactly the Harmful Effects of Smoking. Therefore, it is time to raise their awareness of the consequences of tobacco.

The harmful effects of smoking are considerable as a single cigarette contains over 4000 chemicals in which more than 43 are identified as carcinogens and the most serious one is nicotine. Pure nicotine – a transparent liquid tastes nastily, bitterly and easily melts in water. It penetrates into the body orally, respiratory, and even through skin without difficulty. One drop of nicotine can poison 3 horses from 180 to 200 kilograms in weigh. One dose of nicotine (equivalently the amount of nicotine in 20-25 cigarettes) can make people fatal.

According to the research of World Health Organization (WHO), cigarette smoking causes 90% of lung cancer cases, 75% of obstructed lung circumstances and 25% of ischemia heart disease cases. In Vietnam, based on 2010 statistics of health policy and strategy institution, approximately 11% of male fatal cases are the result of tobacco-related diseases. Surprisingly, smoking one cigarette, you yourself give up 5.5 minutes to live happily with your family and abandon nearly 3000 days of enjoying your own life...

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