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If you think about it, there must be more to the idea that there are cancer causing chemicals in cigarettes. I was thinking just the other day that of course there are really bad cancer causing chemicals in cigarettes. Yet, people who smoke cigarettes rarely seem worried about this. It reminds me of a carpenters job, but there are many jobs also like this. For instance, my brother was a carpenter and he would come into contact with man nasty chemicals. Just the smells alone were outrageous, such as paints, glues, solvents etc. My stepfather told me that he used to buy benzene in a can to use in the building trade.

You may be in a field of work that brings you into contact with chemicals. Be sure you know what they are and what they can do. In my younger years I have worked at jobs where my boss, thought it was a good idea to mix bleach and ammonia. He thought, well if either are good by themselves, both together MUST be great! Right! Great for creating Toxic Chlorine Gas!

Where does this leave us with smoking? It is reported that there are over 4,000 chemicals in cigarettes. Of these, about 250 are said to cause cancer. Of that number about 50 are highly cancer causing. Lets look at the 250 number because that is the number of cancer causers associated with smoking cigarettes. So, every puff you actually come into contact not with one chemical that can cause cancer but up to 250. that means even one puff is bad enough. But, who lights a cigarette and takes one puff? Not many. There are about 10 puffs per cigarette. That means a smoker inhales 2,500 chemicals on average that could cause him cancer like right away. These chemicals damage cells and DNA. We know a good way to get cancer is to damage your DNA, it can mutate and cause cancer. Smoking, is like going out everyday of the year to get a sun burn. We know too that getting too many sunburns leads to DNA damage and that leads to cancer. When we smoke, the chemicals can attack our lips, tongue, throat, esophagus and stomach. Many of the chemicals dissolve and get into your blood stream, and there they can travel anywhere.

Now, we talked about smoking one cigarette, but it really never is one cigarette is it? Unfortunately it’s not just one puff or one cigarette. So, lets see, in one puff you get 250 nasty contacts. But a cigarette usually has at least 10 puffs. So, that means you get on average 2,500 exposures to cancer causers, in about a ten minute time frame. But, it doesn’t end there does it? Oh no! You still have 19 more cigarettes to go, and why let them go to “waste”? So, 2,500 cancer contacts per cigarette, and 20 cigarettes on average a day is 50,000 cancer causing contacts A DAY!

How many exposures do people get in a lifetime of smoking? We know that people smoke much longer than a day. In one day at the average of 20 cigarettes, they will consume 50,000 chemicals per pack. In a month that number sky rockets to an astonishing 1.5 Million exposures. In a year, it reaches 18 Million exposures. At some point, you have to realize that if you played the Lottery this way, you would be Bound to Win! But the nastiness continues. In ten years the average smoker, ingests a total of 180 Million cancer causing chemicals into his now frail body. And finally after 30 years, our smoker hits the amazing and at the same time horrible goal of 540 Million cancer causing chemicals having entered his body. Is it not just a bit amazing that many people achieve this? There is truly no doubt that this individual was sick many more days in his life than a non smoker, and probably has shaved 10-20 years off his life in total. But, even if that is not the case, his enjoyment of life has to have diminished.

These cancer causing chemicals are in smoke form. That means they will physically land on every area of your body from your mouth to stomach and lungs. In addition, they are also dissolved and go into your blood stream. That means that these chemicals can eventually affect every part of a smokers body, and there is no way to clean them out. Once inhaled there is no stopping where these nasty chemicals will go. The best course of action is of course to stop smoking.

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