Dangers of Smoking

Smoking is one of the activities that must be done by some people who are already ingrained in life. Most of them know what impact that may result from smoking, but it will not be discouraged the majority of smokers to make a regular habit that had been living for the sake of fulfilling their inner satisfaction.

Endless discussions about the dangers of smoking, both in the official forums and chat daily. But also an endless number of smokers in Indonesia and in the world. There are reasons that smokers use to launch their big aksinya.Sebagian said to reduce stress, have an addiction, as a friend or even as a contributor to state revenues. Whereas substances contained in cigarettes are many and dangerous among others:

- CHEMICALS

Smoking certainly can not be separated from the raw materials of manufacture, namely tobacco. In Indonesia, clove and tobacco plus other ingredients are mixed to be made clove cigarettes. In addition to cigarettes, tobacco can also be used as a hand-rolled cigarettes, cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, and smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco or chewing tobacco).

       Gaseous components of cigarette smoke is carbon monoxide, ammonia, acids hidrosianat, nitrogen oxides, and formaldehyde. Particles of tar, indole, nicotine, karbarzol, and cresol. These substances are toxic, irritating, and cause cancer (carcinogens).

· Nicotine

Substances most frequently discussed and researched people, poison the body's nerves, increases blood pressure, causing constriction of peripheral blood vessels, and cause addiction and dependence on the wearer. Levels of 4-6 mg of nicotine inhaled by adults every day can make a person addicted. In the United States, white cigarettes on the market had levels of 8-10 mg of nicotine per stem, while in Indonesia yield 17 mg of nicotine per stick.

· Lead (Pb)

Lead was generated by a cigarette as much as 0.5 ug. Pack of cigarettes (20 cigarettes content) which sucked in one day will generate 10 ug. While the danger threshold of lead that enters the body is 20 mcg per day. It is conceivable, when a heavy smoker smoked an average of 2 packs of cigarettes per day, how many of these harmful substances into the body!

· GAS carbon monoxide (CO)

Carbon Monoxide has a strong tendency to bind with hemoglobin in red blood cells. Supposedly, this hemoglobin binds with oxygen which is essential for respiration of body cells, but because the CO gas is more powerful than oxygen, the CO gas is captured place "in the" hemoglobin. Be, hemoglobin coupled with CO gas. CO gas levels in the blood of nonsmokers less than 1 percent, while in the blood of smokers reach 4-15 percent. Many times over!

· TAR

 Tar is a collection of thousands of chemicals in the solid component of cigarette smoke, and carcinogenic. At the time of cigarettes smoked, the tar into the oral cavity as a dense vapor. Once cool, it will become solid and form a brown precipitate on the surface of the tooth, respiratory tract, and lungs. Deposition was varied between 3-40 mg per cigarette, while the tar levels in cigarettes range from 24-45 mg.

There are many things about the dangers of smoking that should be in the know. Did you know if smoking can increase the tendency to get colds and flu? According to research if someone were active smokers, would be at risk of more frequent colds, bronchitis and flu. Unconsciously you can also transmit the disease to others. Inveksi virus can be transmitted through the cigarette smoke that you spend.

Smoking can also cause cancer, heart disease, stroke and increasing cholesterol. The heart will be affected directly because the blood vessels more quickly build the surrounding fatty tissue. So that the artery will not be fast enough to pump blood that can support the needs of the heart's natural. The result is blood clots, damage to blood vessels and eventually causing a blockage that could end up with a stroke or even death.

If you are active smokers, do not assume you are at risk for the disease. Other people who breathe secondhand smoke are also a big chance you have a deadly disease. Because cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide and tar which is also the toxins in their bodies.

There is the danger of smoking to the health of your baby or toddler. Smoking during pregnancy can lead to disorders and abnormalities in the fetus. Experts found babies whose mothers smoked during pregnancy were born with smaller airways. This makes them more susceptible to respiratory problems after birth. Breathing problems can put babies at risk of sudden infant death syndrome.

Dangers of smoking during pregnancy is associated with various health problems in infants. Mothers who smoke are at risk of having stillbirths, miscarriages or premature babies. Smoking while pregnant will lower the amount of oxygen available for the mother and the baby. As a result, the baby's heart rate will increase the risk of premature birth and death increases.

In addition, infants born to mothers who smoked had significantly nights sleep time is shorter. Infants exposed to tobacco smoke before birth is much easier to suffer respiratory diseases and infections that can also contribute to decreased quality of sleep at night.

Seeing the dangers that can arise cigarettes, presumably of us need to work together to do three main things, namely:

1. Communication and information about the dangers of smoking, both for the smoker directly

     or passive smoking.

2. Provide special places for people who smoke to nonsmokers not exposed to negative impacts.

3. Do not feel hesitate to reprimand a smoker, if you feel annoyed.

Smoking is expensive, but health is much more expensive. If the pleasure of smoking is not comparable with the result that you will feel, is it fair if the habit is continued? Therefore, quit smoking from now means you can live healthier and happier. As you already know that the dangers of smoking is bad for yourself and everyone around him. Slowly but surely the dangers of smoking would be felt.