Data from the Indonesian Pediatric Association ( IDAI ) shows that about 50 percent of adolescents aged 15-19 years old and still in junior high / high school already smoke . Most of them probably do not realize how quickly a new habit that can lead to heart disease , stroke , diabetes , lung disease , and some types of cancer .
If you want to know the reason why smoking can cause hundreds of thousands to millions of deaths each year around the world , it is sufficient look at the chemicals in a cigarette .
Average cigarettes containing 600 different chemicals and over 7000 chemical compounds are produced from cigarette smoke . Knowing this may be surprising and adds a strong intention to stop smoking .
" Cigarettes contain thousands of additional ingredients that are not found naturally in the tobacco plant , " said environmental health scientist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine Luz Claudio .
In fact , when a cigarette is burned secrete chemicals that even more . The materials that are harmful to health .
Indeed, the chemicals found in cigarettes are also found in materials that have been approved by the food and drug regulatory agency ( FDA ) . However, these materials are in products should not be eaten .
Eg arsenic , inorganic substance found in wood preservatives and rat poison . According to the FDA , arsenic can be harmful to health because they are carcinogenic , toxic to the blood vessels , reproductive and developmental systems .
Some cigarettes also contain harmful chemicals which sounds more general , such as carbon monoxide were also present on the fire extinguisher and nicotine are also found in insecticides . Formaldehyde in cigarettes are also found cancer-causing ingredients , or cadmium , the active ingredient in batteries , as well as heksamin were also found in charcoal .
It is estimated , 70 chemical compounds found in cigarettes are carcinogenic or cancer-promoting . And almost all of these materials can lead to death in other ways .
According to the lungs with pulmonary rehabilitation specialties of the City of Hope , Brian Tiep said , smoking can affect the flow of oxygen in the body in two ways . First , carbon monoxide " steal " that should bind to hemoglobin binds with oxygen to flow throughout the body .
" Second , cyanide reduces the network 's ability to take up and utilize oksidgen . Meanwhile, the network will not function optimally without oxygen flow , " he explained .
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