Contents:
- Medical Video: Smoking Causes Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema
- What are the ingredients in cigarettes?
- Danger of cigarettes based on their main content
Medical Video: Smoking Causes Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema
In Indonesia cigarettes are everywhere, sold in stalls to restaurants. The wearer also varies, ranging from children to seniors. Oddly enough to know that smoking is a danger, but many still do it. All kinds of dangers of cigarettes that you know come from a combination of about 600 chemicals contained in one stem. When burned, a cigarette can produce more than 7,000 toxic chemicals. At least 70 types of these chemicals are known to cause cancer.
What are the ingredients in cigarettes?
Quoted from Lung.org, many of the chemicals contained in cigarettes are actually used in some products that we use everyday, such as the following:
- Acetone: found in nail polish cleansers
- Acetic acid: hair paint ingredients
- Ammonia: a commonly used home cleaner
- Arsenic: used in rat poisons
- Benzene: found in rubber cement
- Butane: used in lighter fluid
- Cadmium: active component in battery acid
- Carbon monoxide: created from exhaust fumes
- Formaldehyde: preservative liquid
- Hexamine: found in barbecue lighter fluid
- Lead: used in batteries
- Naphthalene: ingredient in camphor
- Methanol: the main component of rocket fuel
- Nicotine: used as an insecticide
- Tar: material for paving the road
- Toluene: used for paint
Danger of cigarettes based on their main content
As reported Compund Interest, there are 8 main ingredients of cigarettes that have the danger of not playing games for your body.
1. Nicotine
The content of this one is the most dangerous, because it can increase blood pressure, blood glucose, heart rate, and is addictive or addictive.
2. Acetaldehyde
This substance is known as a carcinogen (cancer-causing substance) in animals and may also be a carcinogen in humans. It can act as an irritant to the skin and eyes, as well as the respiratory tract.
3. N-Nitrosamines
This content can cause your reproductive organs to be damaged. Besides that it is also a human carcinogen and most carcinogens are in the form of NNK & NNN.
4. 1,3-Butadiene
Unfortunately this substance is not as bad as others, because it contains teratogens (substances that can make defects) humans, are carcinogens in humans, can irritate the eyes and ears, and irritate the upper respiratory tract.
5. Benzene
Benzene is also a carcinogen for humans, and can damage bone marrow, endanger your reproductive organs, and reduce the number of red blood cells in your blood.
6. Acrolein
This substance is known to be carcinogenic to humans, has mutagen DNA, can cause heart disease, and irritates the skin and respiratory tract.
7. Aromatic amine
Besides being a human carcinogen, this substance is associated with digestive tract cancer.
8. Polyaromatic
Just like Benzene, this content can affect your reproductive organs. Then it also contains carcinogens and mutagen DNA.
Hmmm ... Can you imagine what happened to you if you couldn't stop smoking?
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