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Not always do you have to be a smoker to get the sicknesses and diseases a smoker gets. Living and being in an area around someone constantly smoking can affect even those non-smokers. Non-smokers can inhale the smoke polluted air around them and invade their lungs affecting their respiratory system. It is something that can happen even in the most unknown communities. Getting a disease through Secondhand smoke isn't by making physical contact that, it is simply by inhaling the air around you.
Smoking is one of the leading drug addictions in the world a long with alcohol. Nicotine in cigarettes increase levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which affects the brain pathways that control pleasure. This pleasure begins to control in the sense that it begins to feel like it stimulates and does good. In reality it is only affecting our bodies and harming important parts of our brains.
Cigarette smoking is the number one cause of preventable disease and death worldwide. Meaning that cigarette smoking can be prevented but many people do NOT commit to quitting. Cigarette smoke contains 7,000 chemicals and 69 of those are known to cause cancer. Those that begin smoking to become long term smokers start between the age of 15 and 18, usually influenced by their peers or it is within their family past so it runs in the family.
Smoking while pregnant can also be very harmful, doing damage to the baby. Smoking during a pregnancy can affect the baby's brain leading them to have a mental disorder. This can evolve over time and only make it worse. The same is known when drinking alcohol while pregnant, the same outcome could occur. Smoking can also have an affect on low birth weight for baby. The body asks for more food then the usual so the baby wouldn't be getting enough to eat.
Secondhand smoke is also an example of smoking affecting our environment by polluting the air around us. Not only can the smoke be toxic but also physically cigarette butts are some of the most littered items in our country. The butts release small amount of chemicals into the environments that can affect our drinking water, aquatic life, and wildlife. This includes our pets, our dogs for example can eat them thinking its food and that makes them sick. They contaminated our water systems because all that extra waste can go into our sewage systems and our drinking water can be affected.