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Should people who smoke pay for their treatment in hospitals? It is legal for people to smoke. Scientific evidence strongly supports the view that smoking makes it much more likely that a smoker will
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Should people who smoke pay for their treatment in hospitals? It is legal for people to smoke. Scientific evidence strongly supports the view that smoking makes it much more likely that a smoker will suffer from heart disease and cancers than a non-smoker. It should also be noted that tobacco taxes raise a huge amount of money that is available for funding the National Health Service and other government expenditure. Cigarettes contain thousands of chemicals. Up to 600 additives and flavourings may be in a single cigarette and there are as many as 4000 chemicals that are released when a cigarette is smoked. Nicotine is the main addictive ingredient in tobacco. It is readily absorbed into the blood and gives a hit (a rush) to the brain in about 10 seconds. Nicotine produces chemicals in the brain called dopamine. It is the regular hits of nicotine that the brain comes to expect...
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