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The costs of cigarette smoking
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The costs of cigarette smoking Smoking claims and average of 2950 lives every day in Europe alone, nearly all Europeans know about the risks involved in tobacco use, and yet 100 million people still smoke.1 The cigarettes, cigars and pipes seams to be uniquely addictive. This is because the nicotine in tobacco leaves causes a strong psychologically dependent on the taste and feel of tobacco. We are going to be examining the biological costs of tobacco use, focusing on the level of the cell, where the damage begins. When Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World, he found Native Americans cultivating and smoking tobacco for what they believed to be medicinal properties. Columbus and other explorers carried tobacco to Europe and eventually the rest of the world. Today, 500 years later, the plant is still widely used. As a natural defence, tobacco leaves and stems produce various compounds that discourage insects and...
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