Dear Smokers. Please go get
some help before it gets worse

Why do people smoke??

"Within the first ten seconds of your first puff of smoke, the toxic chemicals in tobacco smoke reach your brain, heart and other organs. Smoking harms almost every part of your body and increases your risk of many diseases. Smoking also affects how you look and feel, your finances and the people close to you. " - health.gov.au

Short term effects of smoking

• Bad Breath
• Fatigue and decrease in energy
• Reduction in the senses of taste and smell
• Coughing
• Shortness of breath
• Destroys teeth and gums
• Speeds up heart rate
• More likely to get cancer
• Dirties the lungs
• Disrupts sleep
• People will cringe at you

Long term effects of smoking

• Reduces the life expectancy by a significant margin
• Exposes the lungs to huge amounts of radiation, severely increasing the chance of cancer
• Weakens the immune system in the lungs
• Incrases your risk of a heart attack
• Phenols paralyse and kill the hair-like cells in your airways. These cells (cilia) sweep clean the lining of your airways and protect them against infections.
• Fills the lungs with poisonous carbon monoxide
• Coats your insides in tar
• Ammonia and formaldehyde irritate your eyes mouth and throat
• Smoking causes type 2 diabetes, with the risk of developing diabetes 30 to 40% higher for active smokers than non-smokers. Smoking also worsens some of the health conditions related to type 1 diabetes, such as kidney disease.
• It damages literally every organ in the body
• Fertility problems

The Toxic chemicals in a traditional ciggy/cigarette

The non radioactive molecules (There are practically infinity)

• Nicotine
• Hydrogen Cyanide
• Formaldehyde
• Lead
• Arsenic
• Ammonia
• Tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs)
• Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)

The radioactive particles

• Polonium-210
• Lead-210
• Radium



A lot of the radioactive particles that appear in tobacco products are from the massive amounts of fertilizer that you need to grow the plants. These are called radionuclides. One in five deaths each year in the United States are from tobacco use or secondhand smoke exposure—that’s around 480,000 people annually or 1,300 people every day. Toxic chemicals in tobacco smoke are the main reason cigarettes cause cancer, but radiation also may play a part according to the EPA.

Its time to talk about the elephant in the room, child labor

Making tobacco is a multi-bilion dollar industry. Unfortunately, the cultivation of tobacco leads children in the unbelievably dangerous direction of growing tobacco. The farming of tobacco is dangerous because of the deadly chemicals associated with the farming of tobacco. There are also many nicotine related problems in the tobacco industry such as green tobacco sickness. There is also the threat of the harmful pesticides that are used in the farming process.