Danger Cigarette
Actually, not a few of us are aware that smoking is harmful to our health. But
many are ignoring. Whereas on cigarette packs can be easily read sentences
about the dangers of smoking as follows:
"SMOKING CAN CAUSE CANCER, HEART ATTACK, impotence, INTERRUPTION OF
PREGNANCY AND FETUS"
But strangely there are many of our brothers who smoked and did not feel that
his actions hurt yourself in the presence of threats on the cigarette packs
that they hold.
The content in cigarettes
Cigarettes contain thousands of substances of which 50 per cent of them have
been classified as a substance that has a negative effect on human health.
These materials include radioactive Polonium-201, Acetone (an ingredient in
paint), Ammonia (toilet cleaner), naphthalene, DDT (pesticide) and other
arsenic. In addition, when burned, the cigarettes emit hydrogen cyanide gas
used in the gas chambers of death. Not to mention if incomplete combustion can
produce carbon monoxide (CO) which makes it difficult blood picks up oxygen
from the lungs. Other substances that are harmful and are often referred to,
among others, Tar and Nicotine. Tar is a unity of the forty three ingredients
that cause cancer. While nicotine is a substance that can stimulate the nerves
and the brain causing addiction effects. This makes a smoker is often difficult
to break away from the shackles of cigarettes. Of all cases of heart disease
that occurs in humans, 25 percent is a result of smoking.
Diseases caused by smoking
Diseases caused by smoking are not limited to those mentioned in the cigarette
packs. Diseases associated with smoking there are many, such as:
• Bladder Cancer
• Cancer stomach, intestines and colon
• Mouth, pharynx and esophagus
• liver and pancreatic cancer
• Breast, cervical and uterine
• Lung cancer, bronchitis and chronic respiratory tract infections
• Heart disease and hemorrhagic stroke
• bone loss or osteoporosis
• Decreased fertility and even sterility
• Miscarriage even gave birth to deformed babies
• emphysema, peptic ulcer and chronic cough
• Muscle weakness, gum disease and damage to the eyes
Dangers of passive smoking for smokers
Above is a disease that affects many meraka as active smokers. Active smokers
were those who smoked cigarettes directly on his personal whim. In addition to
active smokers, there are also passive smokers, who inhale the smoke that
issued from the mouths of smokers. Not only active smokers are at risk of
developing the disease, passive smoking was also so. These are diseases that
are most likely to attack a passive smoker.
• Increased risk of lung cancer and heart attacks
• Increased risk of respiratory diseases such as pneumonia and bronchitis
• Irritation of the eyes that causes pain and stinging
• Sneezing and coughing due to allergies
• Pain in the pharynx, esophagus, esophagus and throat
• Headache in response to nicotine rejection
Therefore it can be said that smokers who smoke in public places or care for
someone who does not smoke is a selfish person. Taken alone pleasure, pain
divided. In addition, cigarette smoke issued more dangerous than into the body
of secondhand smoke. This is because cigarette smoke contains substances as
follows:
• Contains twice as much nicotine
• Contains carbon monoxide five times more
• Contains five times more tar
• Increased chemical substances hazardous to health to many-fold
Dangers of secondhand smoke for pregnant women, fetuses and infants
In addition to the passive smokers who under normal circumstances, cigarette
smoke is more dangerous for pregnant women and the fetus. As a result of
cigarette smoke include:
• Miscarriage in the fetus
• Death of the fetus in the womb
• Bleeding and the placenta is enlarged more than 30 percent
• Fetal weight was reduced by approximately 20-30 percent of normal
• Babies born prematurely in an unstable medical condition
Secondhand smoke is more dangerous when inhaled by the baby, the result is:
• Experiencing disorders and respiratory diseases
• Disruption of the child's intellectual development, both motor and cognitive
• Outbreaks of diseases of the ear
• May increase the risk of leukemia as much as twice
• Increased risk of brain cancer by 22 percent
• Babies will more easily tired because oxygen is not completely absorbed
• sudden death syndrome
The dangers of smoking to children of school age
We can meet on the streets, both in large cities and small towns where students
casually smoking as if it was not that bad deeds. You can find them in various
places, such as cafes, terminals, public transport or even around their own
school. People who understand and are aware of health must be concerned with
this situation. Smoking is clearly detrimental to health, but other than that
there are other losses, namely economic problems. Students generally are the
ones who are still economically dependent parents. This of course will add to
the weight of the burden to be borne by the parents. Especially at this time
many women and girls who smoke.
The main factor that causes students smoking is the environment. Adolescence is
filled with curiosity makes them want to try a lot of things. As mentioned
previously, cigarettes contain nicotine which is addictive. So once smoked, it
would be difficult to stop, unless there is a strong will and the support of
the environment. The second thing is of course not be obtained when the
students were in the smoker. Even many of those students who think that men who
do not smoke it's not manly. This is why many students who become smokers,
because smoking is one of the event they were to actualize themselves. As a
symbol that they are hanging out and exist.
Perceptions such as this of course is a big mistake. According to a survey
conducted by the Indonesian Heart Foundation, approximately 77 percent of
Indonesian students who smoke started their adventure of the offer or the
banter of his friends own. In addition, the lack of information about the
dangers of smoking from an early age to be the cause of many students who
smoke. And every time they smoke cigarettes, tantamount to suck thousands of
harmful chemicals that actually harm health
