e easy access to cigarettes (nicotine use 1). That is the percent of people that were not counted in the other survey. That is a lot of people that smoke.
             Cigarette smoking is considered a drug because of the nicotine that is in the cigarettes. Nicotine is recognizes as the most frequently used addictive drugs. Once nicotine is inhaled it takes 10 seconds of inhalation for it to reach the brain. That is the biggest reason that nicotine is so addictive is because it is fast acting, and the main reason smokers use tobacco. Nicotine can also have a toxic effect the higher doses you consume. This toxic effect causes vomiting, tremors, convulsions, and death. Nicotine is so addictive that 35 million people make a serious attempt to quit smoking each year and only 7 percent of them quit for only a year and the others fail after a few days. Tobacco kills more than 430,000 US citizens each year. That is more people than alcohol, cocaine, heroin, homicide, suicide, car accidents, fire, and AIDS combined. Tobacco use is the cause of death that is most preventable. (Leshner 1-3).
             The withdrawal symptoms for the nicotine in cigarettes are incredible, they include; irritability, craving, cognitive and attention deficits sleep disturbances, and increased appetite and may begin within a few hours of the last cigarette. The medical affects cause by the nicotine in cigarettes are cancer, lung disease, bronchitis, emphysema, heart disease, stroke, heart attack, vascular disease, aneurysms, and has been found to worse
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