Smoking is linked to lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, other lung diseases, and cancer of the bladder, throat and mouth, kidneys, cervix and pancreas. According to the American Heart Association, "most adult smokers started smoking when they were preteens or teenagers." Unfortunately, approximately "60% of American children ages 4 to 11 are exposed to secondhand smoke at home." Smoking cuts your life expectancy a lot. On average, "smokers die 13 to 14 years earlier than nonsmokers. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "there are 4,000 chemical components found in cigarettes and 250 of them are harmful to human health." Smoking makes your life shorter and also dramatically affects your mood. Smoking can cause you to be "irritable, impatient, hostile, anxious and depressed." This is a credible source that I will use in my research paper.
American Heart Association. (2011). Smoking: Do you really know the risks? Retrieved from
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/GettingHealthy/QuitSmoking/QuitSmoking/Smoking-Do-you-
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