Monday, October 18, 2010

Cigarette smoke pollutes air

Cigarette smoke, most of you might have thought it doesn’t pollute the environment. As a cigarette burns and its smoke is released, tiny particles of the more than 4,000 chemicals packed into the cigarette are released into the air. Cigarette Smoke is Not Clean, while some of the chemicals found in cigarettes are burned off during the smoking process, many survive and even more are created. Arsenic and tar, for example, cannot be broken down by the heat of the cigarette; these chemicals are simply carried into the air as particulates in the cigarette's smoke.

The actual process of smoking, too, generates additional dangerous compounds such as carbon monoxide; the creation of these gasses further pollutes the air around a burning cigarette. he smoke that is inhaled by the smoker can not be totally absorbed by the lungs, so it is released with small amounts of the original pollutants plus trace amounts of the smoker's bodily fluids. 

The particles float upward on the cigarette's smoke and they dissipate into the surrounding air to produce pollution. Many of the particles and bodily fluids produced during the smoking process are short lived, so the greatest pollution effect is in the area immediately surrounding the smoker.  So my dear friends and brothers who smoke, please stop smoking, as it not only pollutes the environment, it also make a harmful impact on your health.

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