Smoking Tobacco
Smoking is the action of drawing the cigarette, pipe, or
cigar into your mouth and puffing it out. The term usually refers
to cigarette smoking because that is usually what people do when they smoke.
People have smoked things for thousands of years. In the 1500's
Europeans smoked because they believed that tobacco had a medicinal
benefit. Native Americans smoked tobacco in pipes for ceremonial
values way before white people came to America. Now many people
smoke just for pleasurable reasons for relaxation and the craving
for nicotine. Some kinds also smoke because they feel that they are
cool when they do and sometimes they smoke under peer pressure. Smoking is addictive because of nicotine. Nicotine is a substance found in small amounts in the leaves,
Roots and seeds of the tobacco plants. It can also be made
synthetically. Chemists classify nicotine as an alkaloid. Pure
Nicotine is very poisonous. A very small amount can cause rapid but
Weak pulse, vomiting, extreme weakness, and collapsing or death.
Smoking tobacco generally contains 1-2% nicotine. A smoker takes in
about 0.05 milligram to 2 milligrams of nicotine per cigarette. The
Nicotine is quickly absorbed into the blood and reaches the brain within eight seconds after inhalation.
Nicotine is the ingredient in tobacco to which people become addicted to. Most doctors agree that the use of tobacco is really unhealthy. In 1996, the United States Food and Drug Administration finalized a law to prevent people from under the age of 18 from smoking. The rules are based on the agency's finding that cigarettes are chewing tobacco are "deliver devices" for nicotine.
Nicotine is the ingrediant in tobacco to which people become addicted
to. Most doctors agree that the use of tobacco is really unhealthy.
When you start smoking in your teen age years you will look like this in your thirties.
If you want to know how bad is nicotine, compare it to another similar type of posion.
All this information you have been hearing from me....
Why don't you hear it from surgons and smokers by viewing these videos.......
Ugly lungs video
Hard to breathe video
Not that too cool video
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