You know that smoking isn’t good for you. But did you also know these things?

 1: Each cigarette reduces your life by about 11 minutes.

 2: Cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer. They include:

• Arsenic – used in rat poison;

   Lung with emphysema, caused by smoking

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• Formaldehyde – embalming fluid;
• Tar – material for paving roads;
• Nicotine – used as insecticide;
• Cadmium – active component in battery acid.

3: Smokers die an average of 13 to 14 years earlier than non-smokers. 

4: Cigarette smoking is responsible for more deaths each year than deaths from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, car accidents, suicides, and murders combined. 

5: Smoking causes more than just cancer.  It also is linked to:

• erectile dysfunction;
• infertility;
• eye disease – leading to blindness;
• chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema);
• coronary heart disease;
• acute myeloid leukemia;
• pneumonia.
• different cancers, including bladder, esophageal, larynx, lung, mouth, throat, cervical, uterine, kidney, stomach, and pancreatic cancers. 

  Source: https://stopmysmoking.com/help-quitting-smoking/scary-smoking-facts/