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CIGARETTE

The term cigarette, as commonly used, refers to a tobacco cigarette but can apply to similar devices
containing other herbs, such ascloves or cannabis. A cigarette is distinguished from a cigar by its smaller
size, use of processed leaf, and paper wrapping, which is normally white, though other colors are
occasionally available. Cigars are typically composed entirely of whole-leaf tobacco.
A cigarette from the French word cigarette which means meaning "small cigar". Cigarette is a small
cylinder of finely cut tobaccoleaves rolled in thin paper for smoking. The cigarette is ignited at one end
and allowed to smoulder; its smoke is inhaled from the other end, which is held in or to the mouth; in
some cases a cigarette holder may be used as well. Most modern manufactured cigarettes are filtered and
include reconstituted tobacco and other additives.
Cigarettes carry serious health risks, which are more prevalent than in other tobacco products. Nicotine,
the primary psychoactive chemical in tobacco and therefore cigarettes, is addictive. About half of
cigarette smokers die of tobacco-related disease and lose on average 14 years of life. Cigarette use by
pregnant women has also been shown to cause birth defects, including low birth weight, fetal
abnormalities, and premature birth. Second-hand smoke from cigarettes has been shown to be injurious to
bystanders, which has led to legislation that has prohibited smoking in many workplaces and public areas.
BIRTH OF CIGARETTE
The use of tobacco in cigarette form became increasingly widespread during and after the Crimean War,
when British soldiers began emulating their Ottoman Turkish comrades and Russian enemies, who had
begun rolling and smoking tobacco in strips of old newspaper for lack of proper cigar-rolling leaf. This
was helped by the development of tobaccos suitable for cigarette use, and by the development of
the Egyptian cigarette export industry.

EFFECTS OF CIGARETTE SMOKING
1 Every year hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from diseases caused by smoking
cigarettes .
2 One in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age.
3 Tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of cancers.
4 The mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your
heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels.
5 This can cause heart attacks and stroke. It slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and
hands. Some smokers end up having their limbs amputated.
6 Tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer. A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a
full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.
7 Changing to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeper puffs and hold the
smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs.
8 Carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body and
especially your heart work harder. Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into your lungs.
9 Smoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. The strain of smoking effects on the body often
causes years of suffering. Emphysema is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People with emphysema
often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.
10 Lung cancer from smoking is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke. Men who smoke are ten times more
likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers.
11 Heart disease and strokes are also more common among smokers than non-smokers.
12 Smoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels which leads to heart attack.
13 Smoking causes around one in five deaths from heart disease.
14 In younger people, three out of four deaths from heart disease are due to smoking.
15 Cigarette smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of low birth weight, prematurity, spontaneous
abortion, and perinatal mortality in humans, which has been referred to as the fetal tobacco syndrome.

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