Smoking

Why is smoking harmful?

Smokes, ciggies, durries, darts (cigarettes) are addictive because they have nicotine inside of them.

When you light up a cigarette, you breathe in more than 4,000 dangerous chemicals and get trapped in your lungs.

These chemicals are similar to ones found in everyday items, like:

  • Nail polish remover
  • Rat poison
  • Rubber cement
  • Lighter fluid
  • Car exhaust fumes.

Having these chemicals in our bodies is very unsafe.

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