How do cigarettes affect the body?

Answer 1

Smoking is very bad for you. Tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide and tobacco are the main contents of a cigarette. When you smoke you take in over 4,000 different chemicals.

Nicotine - Addictive Drug, keeps you hooked on smoking

Tar - Stains teeth, fingers and lungs, the tar paralyzes the cilla so it can't move, and keep the air ways clear, also the main chemical that causes CANCER!!!

Carbon Monoxide - Carbon monoxide takes over the blood's ability to carry oxygen to body tissues including vital organs such as the heart and brain.

Answer 2

Smoking can effect the way you breath, by clogging up the lungs with tar. If you smoke for long enough, you can get cancer of the lungs and it is possible that you could die from smoking. It also gives you, a nasty taste in your mouth, gives you a terrible coth , and most of the time makes you out of breath. It also makes your teeth digusting

Answer 3

The effects of smoking on your health:

Short Term Effects

- Increased heart rate - smell of smoke in hair and clothes

- Dulled sense of taste and smell - increased chance of Asthma attack

- Increased blood pressure - financial costs eg. Cost per packet

- Watery eyes - loss of productivity at work

- Decreased blood flow to the extremities - social impact eg. Family

- Dizziness and nausea - disapproval, friend's disapproval

Long Term Effects

- stained fingers and teeth - hardening and narrowing of blood vessels

- wrinkles - increased chance of gangrene in extremities

- persistent cough - shortness of breath

- increased chance of stomach ulcers - reduced fertility

- increased risk of cancers eg. Lung, mouth, oesophagus, larynx

- financial costs eg. Health costs to the individual and community

- increased chance of Heart disease and stroke

Answer 4

Smoking can case lung cancer, emphysema, loss of smell, wrinkles, and morning cough. 480,000 people die from smoking every year. You don't want to be next!

Answer 5

Cigarette smoking does affect the human body. It is an appetite repressent, it causes cancer, and it can cause withdrawal symptoms.

Answer 6

It turns teeth yellow, hurts breathing, and makes you live shorter.