Name : Kinanti Puji Lestari Nim : 018.06.

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HAZARD OF SMOKING

Smoking is common among the public. Everybody know smoking also know
the impact for being a smoker. Someone said “smoking is very famous like a celebrity
star, in different ways. In exchange from the pleasure of smoking, your life is the price
you pay”. Because there are approximately 600 ingredients in cigarettes, including
chemicals components that might be found with warning labels, but there is no such
warning for the toxins in tobacco smoke. This is indicate that smoking is bad for health,
so nowadays many quotes that refers to smoking as dangerous for healthy life.
There are three main components of cigarettes. First, nicotine. Nicotine
absorbed into the blood and affects the brain, also can disturbs metabolism and
suppresses appetite. Second, tar. Tar can sticks to the tiny hairs on the lungs (cilia), and
then get thicker so the lungs can’t do their job properly. The last, carbon monoxide.
Carbon monoxide decreases the amount of oxygen in the blood, so the blood get thicker
and puts a starin on the heart so the heart need more effort to pump.

There are also another components of cigarettes such as, benzene,

formaldehyde, ammonia, cadmium, acetone, arsenic, hydrogen cyanide and other
chemicals. These all components that contained in cigarettes can causes many disease
for the body’s smoker, like cardiovascular disease, chronic cough, emphysema,
bronchitis, chronic airway obstruction, acute myeloid leukemia, bladder cancer, cancer
of the cervix, cancer of the esophagus, kidney cancer, cancer of the larynx, lung cancer,
cancer of the oral cavity, pancreatic cancer, cancer of the pharynx, stomach cancer.

Compared with nonsmokers, smoking increased health risk, like coronary heart
disease by 2 to 4 times, stroke by 2 to 4 times, men developing lung cancer by 23 times,
women developing lung cancer by 13 times, and dying from chronic obstructive lung
diseases by 12 to 13 times. Also another health effects like infertility, preterm delivery,
stillbirth, low birth weight, and sudden infant death syndrome. Even the worst effect
of smoking is a death, based on article smoking causes an estimates 90% of all lung
cancer deaths in men and 80% of all lung cancer deaths in women.

So, can be concluded from the article that cigarettes are contain about 600
ingredients, including chemicals components. The main component of cigarettes are
nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide. Smoking can cause many disease, cardiovascular
disease, increased health risk, other health effects, even caused a death. And the article
also appeal to the readers to smoker for quit smoking by ask for support, exercise, and
making plan to avoid smoking and make a healthy life.

Summary of 5th group’s article