Smoking and diseases

Approximately one in two people who smoke die prematurely. Besides that smoking is an expensive habit. Hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide, tar, lead, acetone and ammonia are just some of the toxic substances found in cigarettes.

In addition to ingest toxins when you smoke you also increase the risk of getting a lot of diseases.

Among other things:
• Lung cancer
• Coal
• Esophageal cancer
• Heart disease
• Bladder Cancer
• Stroke
• Periodontitis
• Develop Alzheimer's
• Bronchitis

Passive smoking

Passive smoking is also often known as secondhand smoke and environmental tobacco smoke. When you smoke cigarettes, besides hurting yourself and your body you also hurt others. That is why its called passive smoking. Think about the people around you who does not choose to smoke themselfs, they should not have to breath in your dangerous smoke. when you inhale the toxic smoke one fourth of it goes into your own lungs while three quarters goes straight out to the environment. The people around you is inhaling the same toxic substances as yourself. Passive smoking can cause heart disease and lung cancer. It can also aggravate the condition in asthmatics and cause asthma in children. Other symptoms include cough, sore throat and eye irritation. Each year 600,000 people die from passive smoking, many of them are children. Therefore, it is now forbidden to smoke in many places, such as restaurants and bars.

How is cigarettes made?

After harvesting the cigarette tobacco it's dried under direct heat. This process ads on the amount of tobacco nitrosamine which is highly carcinogenic. The effect you want from this process is to make the leaf brighter. Although now a days many companies are walking away from this process. They instead try to add more oxygen to the drying procedure. The steams inside the leaf used to be removed because of its bitter taste, but these days you use them because they contain much more nicotine than the leaf itself. The stems is then blended together with the pulp. To mask the bitter taste you add sugar. Then you add ammonia to the masses. This is to release the nicotine which is in salt form. Free nicotine is more easily entered to the bloodstream than nicotine in salt form. Following this a lot of other additives are added to the tobacco. which ones and how many depends on the cigarette type and brand. many of these common ingredients (nearly 60) are carcinogenic. Commonly used is the addition of liquorice and cocoa. This might not sound so bad. The thing is, when liquorice and cocoa are burned and inhaled, they open up the breathing passages deep down in the lungs so that the nicotine can be absorbed by the lung tissue and that way go straight into the blood. After this the masses are dried and crumbled together with leaves. Then, just to roll cigarettes. You roll them into long, thin rolls of paper. Cut into desired length and if the cigarettes should have a filter you just glue it on.

Cigarettes are highly addictive. It's not just de nicotine that makes you dependent on cigaretts, but also the burnt sugar. That could make it hard to quit smoking with sugerfree nicotine products like some nicotinegum. Studies have shown that snus as a smoking cessation method more often leads to successful results than the use of other smoking cessation products or none at all.

Use snus instead of cigarettes

There are many disadvantages of smoking and few(if any at all) benefits. It is never too late to quit smoking and you will notice the difference immediately. To quit smoking is not easy. Many peaople easily fall back into the dangerous habit. Using nicotine products such as Chewing gum and patches could help you but are usually not as effective as using snus, since snus just like cigarettes is a tobacco product.