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Regiane Ferreira
Professor Blake
College writing 1-English 111
July 20, 2014
Cigarette…a Treat to the People and to the Environment My 98 years old aunt is still living the best of her life. She travels around the world, she eats almost anything and she gets along with a big circle of friends. Its amazing to see a person living for so long like that since her two sons passed away very young. Both of them were heavy smokers. A cigarette is bad to the health and to the environment. But a treat to the health does not seen to be a good reason for quitting smoke. It is normal for the smokers to think that smoking only hurts them. In fact, this not only hurts them, but also hurts other people and the environment. The cigarettes are made off about 4000 chemicals, which 69 of those chemicals cause cancer. For example the carbon monoxide is found in car exhausts and used in chemical manufacturing. The ammonia used to make fertilizer and explosives. The arsenic is one of the most dangerous chemicals in cigarettes. It can cause cancer as well as damaging to the heart and blood vessels. The effect of cigarettes smokers and people around is horrendous in all aspect. It permeates everything around it. Smokers usually have smelly hair, breath, clothes, and people usually around smokers have this same effect on them. Most of the smokers do not take in consideration the yellow teeth they get which are very

Ferreira 2 hard to eliminate it. The worst effect of the cigarettes in smokers and people is the possibility of developing a cancer or lungs disease. Every time smokers light up a cigarette they are releasing a massive amount of chemical in the air, which causes pollution into the air. This polluted air moves around reaching out the trees and the people that breath them in- trees be compared to our lungs. They perform in the environment the same