There are an assortment of effects of smoking that can harm a smoker. They can affect not only the smoker's health but also the non-smokers around the smoker. Why should the people around the smoker suffer when they made the decision not to smoke? It slowly kills the smokers and non-smokers. People who choose smoke are more likely to develop serious diseases, such as lung cancer, heart disease, and/or emphysema. Why take the risk of this awful fate? Not only will smoking causes diseases, but it also can cause smokers to experience various side effects, which include heart burn, ulcers, and gallstones. There are many more diseases and side effects, but these are the well-known illnesses. Cigarettes contain unbelievably atrocious ingredients that are horrible for a person's body. They consist of different types of chemicals, some of which are cancer causing.
             Cigarettes contains carcinogens, which are cancer causing. The following are compounded into cigarettes: benzene (paint), formaldehyde (embalming fluid), ammonia (hair dye, toilet cleaner, etc), acetone (nail polish remover), tar, nicotine (insecticide/ addictive), carbon monoxide (automobile exhaust), arsenic, and hydrogen cyanide (poisons). Does this sound like something that an individual should be inhaling? These are chemicals no one would or should inhale, if they were not in a cigarette. Many people do not realize what a cigarette consists of. There are many more carcinogens but the chemicals mentioned are known better than the others.
             Although diseases can happen to anyone at anytime, smoking increases the chance of getting one or more. No one can predict who will get a disease or cancer. So why increase your risk by smoking cigarettes? Many diseases can occur, such as lung cancer, heart disease, and/or emphysema. Lung cancer, which occurs most often, is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke that builds up in the lungs. The carcinogens will eventually form a grow...