Hazardous effect caused by Smoking

The carbon dioxide from smoking a cigarette is a key factor for greenhouse effect.

The interesting fact is, Hydrogen cyanide is present in cigarette smoke. This compound was used during World War 2 as a weapon of mass destruction; A powerful bomb can be made with Hydrogen cyanide

A cigarette smoke leads to the excessive exposure to compound called ‘benzene’. The compound benzene is one of the major causes of acute myeloid leukemia. In a country like United States, 90 percent of benzene exposures are due to cigarettes. Even radioactive elements lead (Pb) and even a polonium is found in cigarette smoke in quite low levels.

Around the world approximately 80,000 to 100,000 (below 20) smokes cigarettes on a daily basis. If you calculate in rough figure then one in every four teenagers aged 12 to 18 smoke cigarettes. This is quite alarming situation. The smokers number shall raise every year if this situation goes on.