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The Cost of Smoking to Human Health. Smoking tobacco is a highly addictive and dangerous habit, killing over 120,000 in the UK each year
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The Cost of Smoking to Human Health. Smoking tobacco is a highly addictive and dangerous habit, killing over 120,000 in the UK each year. Cigarettes contain thousands of harmful chemicals, which lead to many fatal diseases. More people die from smoking related diseases than from road accidents, drugs misuse, AIDS and alcohol put together. (3) The most hazardous of these chemicals are tar, carbon monoxide and nicotine. Tar is a mixture of other toxic chemicals, including substances that cause cancer. Tar collects in the lungs and affects the DNA of cells in the alveoli. Carbon Monoxide is a gas that combines with the haemoglobin in the red blood cells, reducing the amount of oxygen the blood can carry. (2) Nicotine is a poisonous drug that is also used as an insect killer. It is nicotine that is the addictive part of the tobacco and it affects the brain in the same way...
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