a deadly habit
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A Deadly Habit
Smoking is one of the most addictive drugs sold legally in the market causing high death percentages in America. Cigarettes are so addictive, people smoke them with the knowledge of health risks involved for themselves. This drug is used from adolescent children to senior citizens, and the message hasn't been taken seriously enough as to how dangerous smoking can be. Smoking is a deadly addiction and people should stop using them to save their lives and others around them.
In contrast to other drugs, the nicotine in cigarettes carries a burden of chemical poisons. A single cigarette is composed of 4,000 hazardous chemicals, many produced by the chemical reactions occurring at the lighted end of a cigarette. The visible smoke exhaled by the smoker accounts for the 150 billion tar particles produced by burning tobacco. Besides the visible components of cigarette, other toxic chemicals are involved such as carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, and arsenic. All mentioned is used for fatal purposes, for carbon monoxide is the exhaust from a car, arsenic is rat poison, formaldehyde preserves dead bodies, and hydrogen cyanide is used for the gas chamber. These and the other 3,994 chemicals make up the mainstream of smoke...