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... How many of you smoke? ...
Tobacco smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals, many of them known poisons.
Cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide
Smoking overworks the heart and reduces its oxygen supply this makes clots more likely to form in blood vessels
Smokers have a 70% greater risk of death from coronary heart disease than non smokers
Smoking doubles the risk of heart attack and stroke
Smoking also increases the risk of gangrene by more than five times
At the age of 14 my grandfather started smoking
In 1992 he was diagnosed with Emphysema, he died five weeks later
Emphysema is a chronic lung disease
Over 2 million people in the United States have emphysema
At his last few weeks my garndfather couldn’t breath or eat
He was literally suffocating from inside (the cancer had taken over half of his lungs)
He was put on oxygen and morphine just because breathing became unbearably painful for him
At age seven I watched my grandpa suufocate and die andb I just couldn’t understand why.
Approximate Word count = 414
Approximate Pages = 1.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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