What makes smoking dangerous? What chemicals are found in cigarettes that make smoking a deadly habit?

Cigarettes are made from dried tobacco leaves that contain over 4,000 chemicals including ingredients that are added for flavor. Of that number, 60 are known carcinogens or cancer-causing agents. In addition, tobacco and tobacco smoke have co-carcinogens that don't lead to cancer but can accelerate its growth.

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The rosy picture of cigarette commercials is a far cry from the grim reality that smoking brings. Rather than help you cope with the complexities of modern living, smoking brings many people closer to the grave.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said adult male smokers lose an average of 13.2 years of life while female smokers lose 14.5 years of life.

How much damage smoking does to your body depends on the type of tobacco, the form it is smoked,...

Some might say that getting rid of a habit is very hard, and it certainly is the same thing with smoking. There are several people who have been successful with their attempts to finally bid goodbye to cigarettes because of the dangers that they may bring to the smoker’s health. However, one should anticipate some of the withdrawal symptoms that may occur once a smoker has decided to quit smoking. This will enable him to stop smoking withdrawal symptoms as fast as he...

The Deaths caused by continuous smoking have reached the major epidemic proportions. It has been estimated that in the United States alone, around 430,000 people die yearly from teen smoking-related illnesses that includes the cancers and various lung disease. It has been said from the branch of communal Health at the Indiana University School of Medicine, state that the tobacco's "human being toll far goes beyond the Black Death of 14th century, the worldwide influenza pandemic of...

Looking more vibrant and younger is not just about having smooth radiant skin. More than you realize, you need to take good care of your eyes and the area surrounding them as well.  Having dark under-eye circles and eye bags can make you look haggard, older and ugly even if you have a slim body or supple skin all over. By ensuring that the area around your eyes is not puffy and discolored, you can greatly improve your appearance. So, here's how:

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Most of us are aware that people who have smoked for a while can get lung cancer and emphysema and eventually die, but many don't know about all of the bad things that smoking can to them right now. If you smoke, you owe it to yourself to find out about the effects of smoking on your life now. This guide provides some information about what smoking is doing to your body and some of the common reasons why people keep smoking even though they know it are bad for them. These are important...

Can electronic cigarettes help you quit smoking and what are they anyway?

Asked recently to write about electronic cigarettes, I have to confess that I had never heard of such a thing. Some internet research later and I discovered that electronic cigarettes are very much a quickly growing concern. A Google search revealed there is no smoke without fire as almost six million results just for the phrase "electronic cigarette" were returned.

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Smoking is restricted or banned in almost all public places and cigarette companies are no longer allowed to advertise on TV, radio, and in many magazines. Smoking cessation has major and immediate health benefits for men and women of all ages. Quitting smoking decreases the risk of lung and other cancers, heart attack, stroke, and chronic lung disease. Smoking cigarettes is to be stopped while using these devices.

Smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, physical...

Much has been said and written about smoking as a dangerous health problem. Each and every person who smokes is aware of the fact that their habit could hasten them towards death. Smoking is known to be one of the carcinogenic factors, and could lead to a wide variety of cancers including lung cancer and oral cancer. Smoking also causes various breathing and respiratory problems.

But despite knowing all this, people are reluctant to give up smoking. The main attraction of...

By now, practically everyone knows that smoking is bad for you. And most of us have tried to quit at least once with varying degrees of success. If you’ve tried to quit, but weren’t successful, there is something you can do that can improve your health even if you continue to smoke. Specifically, you should clean out your lungs.

This may be particularly important if you have a smokers cough. A chronic dry cough is your body’s way of trying to clean...