Hey there again! Hope you liked the information above on my blog, here is more about cigarettes itself and teens and children who smoke and drink alcohol.
Cigarettes contain arsenic, lead, hydrogen cyanide, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, ammonia and 43 known carcinogens. Urea, a chemical compound that is a mojor component in urine, is used to add "flavor" to cigarettes. Yes, read that again, it is TRUE!!! In recent studies, it was proven that each cigarette you smoke, is suppposed to shorten your life by 11 minutes. Think about that you smoke 10 cigarettes a day, thats 110 minutes off of your life per day, 770 minutes off your life per week, 3,300 minutes off your life per month. It all adds up over time and this is a preventable thing in someone's life.
Each day, 3,000 children smoke their first cigarette, as we speak numbers are incresing and more and more children are trying them out. Children are also trying their first sip of alcohol closer to 13 or 14 years old. With that being said, at least three million adolescents are smokers and more of them are even drinkers. Tobacco use happens a few years later in a teens life, only around 2 years later around the age of 16. Almost all first tobacco and alcohol use occurs before high school graduation. Teens may not stick with it, but around 20% of them do.
According to the Surgeon General, teenagers who smoke were......
- Three times more likely to use alcohol.
- Eight times more likely to smoke marijuana.
- Twenty times more likely to use Cocaine.
- And more than ninety percent of adult smokers started when they were teens.
Smoking and alcohol and lead to many negitive factors in a teen or adults life, and we need to try and to everything to limit the intake, or totally make these teens stop before it become an addiction, and needed in their everyday life.
2 comments:
Your blog was very interesting to me. I really like all the information you put about how many minutes of life a cigarette takes from your life in a day, week, and so on. I also really enjoyed how you included what ingredients are commonly in cigarettes. I think a lot of people know that there are harmful substances in them, but the list you provided shocked and disgusted me. I don't know how anyone would want to bring those substances into their body willingly. I think you're doing a great job Nicole!
I really am so shocked to find out that every cigarette you smoke your life is shorten 11 min, but I really think noone really cares. As we see the price has gone up tremendous and they are still sealing rapidly. Im going to tell everyone I see smoke about this.
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