Before you light your next one, think about what you’re doing to yourself and the people around you. Have you ever thought how black your lungs are, how shrivelled and full of mucus they’ve become since you took your first puff?
If you’ve never thought about any of these things, then it’s time you did. No matter how many times people are told that smoking damages their health they still do it. But I think they haven’t been told the full extent of what smoking does to them.
Dr Naomi Carter, of the National Medical Research Centre is a specialist. "Most people don’t realise that cigarettes contain Benzopyrene." Carter reports, "Scientists now know that when Benzopyrene enters the body it changes into Benzopyrene Diropoxide or BPDE and then attaches to the receptors of the P53 Gene. This is the gene that causes lung cancer. The BPDE attaches to the P53 gene in 3 specific locations: The trachea, the bronchioles and the alveoli, and causes pre-cancerous changes to the lung tissue."
Basically what Carter is saying is that smoking brings a chemical into the body. The chemical mutates, then causes lung cancer. Other than Benzopyrene, there are a further 4,000 or more chemicals in cigarette smoke, and of these 38 are proven to cause cancer.
I hope you think about what has been said here.
If you want to give up smoking, why not call:
The Stop Smoking Service on 01209 215666
Written by a www.eefo.net user.
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