Smokers Please Stay Away From Me!!

Cigarettes no longer is a strange for teenagers nowadays.A lot of efford had done by the goverment to reduce the smokers, but it seems like unavailing. The most recent efford that done by the goverment are display a terrible picture about the effect of smoking on each pack of cigarettes. The harmful content in cigarettes was included in our secondary science subjects so it is no longer a fresh topics to discuss in here. Let's us talk about the chemicals released from the cigarettes which will affect the people around who expose to the cigarettes smoke(second hand smokers/passive smokers).There are 3 major types of gases which will released by cigarettes.

i)Hydrogen Cyanide
-colourless,poisonous gas
- breathing in small amount will causes headache, dizziness, weakness
- whilst breathing in large amount may cause death

ii)Carbon monoxide
-result of inclomplete burning of carbon fuels
-CO will compete with Oxygen to bind with haemoglobin which lower the concentration of oxygen in the blood.
-It may also cause loss of consciousness and death

iii)Formaldehyde
-colorless, flammable gas with a strong odor
-causes irritition of nose, eye and throat when breathing in.
-It may cause cancer (carcinogen)

So that, we should always stay away from the smokers to avoid become the victims of secondhand smokes.
sources:http://quitsmoking.about.com/