in 1992 a woman in Michigan turned 107 years old. She claimed that the secret to long life ves smoking cigarettes. She had no lung damage, took long walks each day without breathing problems, and was healthier than most people half her age. She smoked over 25 cigarettes a day for 80 years and believed the smoke helped keep her healthy Do you think this ONE story proves that smoking is healthy? Why or not?
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causes cancer, lung disease, and heart disease
can shorten your life by 10 years or more
can cost a smoker thousands of dollars a year
So why are people still lighting up? The answer, in a word, is addiction.
Once You Start, It's Hard to Stop
Smoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains the very addictive chemical nicotine. As with heroin or other addictive drugs, the body and mind quickly get used to the nicotine in cigarettes. Soon, a person needs to have it just to feel normal.
People start smoking for different reasons. Some think it looks cool. Others start because their family members or friends smoke. Almost all adult tobacco users started before they were 18 years old. Most never expected to become addicted. That's why it's so much easier to not start smoking at all.
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No. But it is very rare for people who are heavy smoker do not develop lung diseases. Scientists believe that is caused by mutations of DNA enhance the function of the lungs for some people that protects people from impacts of smoking.