... result of second-hand smoke at home. (Professor Konrad Jamrozik). Two thirds of adults do not smoke, most of these adults that do smoke start when they are young, usually in their early teens (Pete Sanders and Steve Myers). What is in cigarettes? When a person smokes they inhale about 4,000 chemicals through the mouth and into the lungs. (Health Education Authority) Some of these chemicals being: Acetic Acid that is vinegar, acetone that is nail polish remover, ammonia which is a powerful cleaning agent and arsenic that is a dangerous poison used as an insecticide. These chemicals are dangerous, some of them such as Formaldehyde that is highly poisonous and arsenic that is used as a rat poison, these approximate number of chemicals are damaging the human race and killing about 114000 (Plymouth NHS) UK residents each and every year, worldwide this is approximately 4 million people. Approximately 3,000 teens ...

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