As the cancer slowly ate away the smoker's lungs, three teenagers picked up their first pack of cigarettes. Only one product kills 1/3 of its users... Tobacco. As you finish reading this paragraph an estimated 21 people will have died because of tobacco. Tobacco is addictive and extremely harmful not only to the consumer but to the people around them as well. It took 62 deaths to recall Firestone tires, shouldn't 120,000 deaths a day be a good enough reason to make tobacco illegal?
             Cigarettes contain 4000 toxins and 101 different poisons including arsenic, cyanide (rat poison), carbon monoxide (a poisons gas), ammonia (household cleaner), lead, benzene (Rubber cement), tar, cadmium (used in batteries), hydrogen cyanide (Gas used for executions in gas chamber), and polonium (radioactive poison that is equal to 100 chest x-rays). The total number of deaths a day related to tobacco products is greater than deaths from suicide, traffic accidents, AIDS, murder, drugs, and alcohol... combined. Tobacco is the leading preventable cause of death in America. Cigarettes cause lung cancer, mouth cancer, throat cancer, larynx cancer, esophagus cancer, stomach cancer, pancreas cancer, uterus cancer, cervix cancer, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, and some forms of leukemia, heart disease, heart attack, fatal heart failure, and stroke as if that wasn't enough they also cause pulmonary diseases such as sinusitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, emphysema, and tracheitis (inflammation of the trachea). When pregnant women smoke it is like the baby is also. Birth defects or complications could accrue such as, miscarriage, premature birth, especially, low-birth-weight, and babies with developmental problems. Nicotine depresses the appetite at a time when a woman should be gaining weight, and smoking reduces the ability of the lungs to absorb oxygen. Deprived of nourishment and oxygen, a fetus may not grow as fast as it should.
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