SMOKING AND YOUR BODY: WHAT’S LEFT
- Smoking increases your heart beat by 40% or 25 extra beats per minute or 5,000 heartbeats per pack.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- Your blood pressure increases 10 to 20 points.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- The walls of your arteries constrict an average of 22%.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- You destroy 25 milligrams of vitamin C for each cigarette you smoke.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- Your immune system is weakened giving rise to infections and viruses.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- Smoking destroys vitamin B in your body. You cut the supply to the nerve endings in your body, and can not function in a normal way.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- Smoke is often inhaled as high as 190 degrees in temperature.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- You artificially stimulate your nervous system, causing your body to react in a way that leads to serious disease.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- Your field of vision is cut by 22% due to paralysis of the nerve endings in the eyeball.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- The poison filter of your body, the live, is put on overload.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- Smoking increases stomach acidity that irritates your stomach lining.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- Smoking also dulls and deadens the taste buds in your mouth.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- Your blood sugar level raises rapidly, then drops when you stop smoking.
Smoking cuts the oxygen supply to your brain by 50% and cuts your memory by 10 - 23%.[FONT=Times New Roman] - Smoking promotes wrinkles by lowering your skin temperature by 3 - 6 degrees.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- Smoking affects the heart, blood vessels, nervous system, digestive tract and the kidneys.[FONT=Times New Roman]
WHAT IS IN THOSE CIGARETTES ANYWAY?
- 5 million free radicals (toxic and damaging molecules) are sucked deep into the most sensitive tissue in the human body (that’s per puff)[FONT=Times New Roman]
- The smoke also swirls up around the mouth, nose eyes forehead and hair.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- The same free radicals that are introduced internally are penetrating and damaging to the skin, eyes, nose and scalp.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- Tobacco smoke contains 7 known cancer-producing substances.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- Tobacco smoke contains 15 chemical substances known to be poisonous to human life.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- Cyanide is one chemical in smoke which is used to execute criminals in the gas chambers.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- Formaldehyde is used to embalm bodies, but smokers suck it into their bodies with every puff.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- Nicotine is an organic nerve drug so powerful that a one-drop injection would cause immediate death.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- Eating just 3 cigarettes would kill you within 30 minutes because the nicotine would go directly into the blood stream.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- Smokers inhale 50% more arsenic than is legally allowed in the same amount of food.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- Smokers actually paralyze the mobile cleaning system of the respiratory tract so your body cannot clean the air that goes into your body as it would normally be able to do.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- A smoker who smokes just one pack of cigarettes a day for 15 years absorbs the equivalent of an 8 ounce cup of tar each year.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- The concentration of poisonous carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke IS AT LEAST 1,000 TIMES GREATER than the allowable environmental level.[FONT=Times New Roman]
- **A lit cigarette contaminates the air for around 12 minutes. **
Let’s Get Real for a Moment
**Check out what cigarette smoking does to human tissue, namely lungs, **
**the primary intake port of the most required substance necessary for life…oxygen. **
**The lungs have only been sectioned in two for viewing and analysis. **
**Normal lungs are red/pink in color, symmetrical in shape, and have an even, **
uniformly porous texture. If you are a long term smoker, and have been experiencing
**shortness of breath, coughing spells, lower- or mid-chest pains, your lungs may **
**now be looking somewhat similar to these. **
**These first two pictures contrast healthy lungs against a cancerous pair. **
On the left is a fairly normal pair. The large, pink item in the lower center between
them is the heart. **
The areas of the cancerous pair that isn’t black, but yellowish gray, is the cancer. **
The bulbous knobby tissue are tumors.
[FONT=Times New Roman] The human body can live for weeks without food; ****
days without water;
but only a few minutes without oxygen.
[FONT=Times New Roman] THE BOTTOM LINE**
**SMOKING IS REALLY SLOW MOTION SUICIDE
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