reportage
A Million Reasons to Stop Smoking
(or to never start)
W
hile it’s common knowledge that smoking harms you and your loved ones, only numbers and facts can show in detail the impact smoking has on our surroundings. To highlight the importance of the topic: every second adult smokes in Macedonia - to be exact, 48.4% smoke regularly. Tobacco itself is an essential factor in poverty worldwide as it diverts focus from savings being spent on basic needs like food and housing. Still, it’s also responsible for 8 million smoking-related deaths. WHO defines that 7 million of those originate from direct tobacco use and 1.2 million from non-smokers being exposed to secondhand smoke. A single cigarette contains over 7000 chemicals; many ingredients are poisonous and over 60 cancerous. To name a few, there are Carbon monoxide, Acetone (found in nail polish remover), Arsenic and Pesticides (found in rat poison and used to kill insects) in manufactured cigarettes.
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