The first reason why you shouldn’t smoke is that smoking affects your health. Smoking contains pure poison. Cigarette smoke contains around 4000 different poisonous chemicals. Cigarettes contain black tar which can block your lungs and literally turn them black. If this happens, it becomes harder for the lungs to be spread throughout the body If you smoke, your physical condition will be negatively affected, so it will be very difficult for you to succeed in sports. With smoking, the entire respiratory system becomes vulnerable to chronic disorders, attacks and infections. The chemicals in cigarette smoke can irritate the lining of the upper respiratory tract while others destroy cilia and ceases movement. When this happens, extra mucus forms in the bronchi and trachea. This is the cause of the smoker’s cough. With smoking you are twice as much susceptible to pulmonary diseases of chronic nature and chances of Tuberculosis affecting the lungs are abetted by smoking .
Smoking also weakens the walls of the aveoli, which, when seriously broken down, can cause a lung disease known as emphysema. People suffering from emphysema suffer from shortness of breath because the gaseous exchange in the lungs is reduced. They cannot get enough oxygen in the blood and is thus unable to move around well.
Diseases affecting the cardio vascular system including pressure, cardiac attacks, myocardial infarction and cerebral attacks are triggered by smoking. There are evidences to support the nexus between smoking and