Nowhere does a ton of toxins can be delivered effortlessly in the body than by cigarette smoking.  Cigarette smoking can literally destroy your health.  Often the toxins come from the fertilizer and pesticide used on the tobacco plant.  These toxins may be polonium on the fertilizer and poisons on the pesticides.  Few people are aware of this and the nicotine addiction amplifies the damage these substances wreak on the body.  It is a statistical fact that a person dies every eight seconds from tobacco and cigarette use.  If you look at it in yearly terms, this means about 5 million people die from tobacco and cigarette use.

This statistic does not even account for the victims of secondhand smoke, which is anyone who smells the cigarette smoke.  The smoke from the cigarette or tobacco possesses 50 or more carcinogenic substances and 11 of these substances are categorized as Group 1 carcinogens.  Even the ash of a burnt cigarette have concentrated amount of toxins that linger on long after the smoke has dissipated.  Interesting to note that cigarettes are not merely all tobacco leaves and paper.  There are about almost 600 substances in a stick of cigarette one which this article mentioned a little while back – polonium.  Some of these substances are for flavor and many are there to enhance the pleasure of smoking, which only means these substances are inserted in the cigarette to addict the smoker.

When the deaths caused by cigarette smoking became too large to ignore, the tobacco companies were forced to submit a list of additives they use to the public.  The list shockingly showed around 4000 chemicals added and about 40 of them were cancer causing substances while about 40 were known to be toxins.  These poisonous compounds included DDT, arsenic, cyanide, ammonia, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, tar and nicotine among a list of incredibly poisonous substances! If you are still smoking, this article can probably shake you up a bit and maybe help you to reconsider your present lifestyle habits.  If you decide to quit you not only are doing yourself a great big favor but your family and friends will benefit from your smoking cessation as well.

If you need help quitting smoking, then acupuncture therapy in Cleveland  is the best and safest natural treatment you can avail of.  The needles used in this treatment are very thin and they are non hollow.  Many cigarette addicts have found acupuncture to be a great help for them in quitting cigarette smoking for good.  The needles generate an effect on the body that help release beneficial chemicals inside the body including dopamine serotonin and endorphins to relax the body and help neutralize the craving to smoke.  You need to go undergo a few to several acupuncture sessions to enable you to quit smoking for good.