The surgeon general’s warnings are one of the many ways society tries to warn teenagers of the dangers of smoking. Other than the warnings from the surgeon general there are many other sources trying desperately to reach out to teens to stop underage smoking. They are trying to make teens realize the health, financial, and emotional risks of smoking. For instance there have been many studies concluding that smoking can cause thyroid disease. Smoking cigarettes can cause the thyroid gland to be either under active or over active. Thyroid disease’s symptoms include fatigue, hair loss, constipation and insomnia.

Smoking causes about eighty seven percent of all cases of lung cancers. Besides lung cancer smoking can also cause cancers of the mouth, kidney, pharynx, urethra, larynx, esophagus, pancreas, stomach, uterus, cervix, and bladder. Tobacco is responsible for about twenty nine percent of all cancer deaths. Although it is a commonly know

Smoking tobacco is a very expensive habit. Currently the average cost of a pack of cigarettes in Michigan is $3.85. An average smoker smokes about a pack a day. At the rate of a pack a day a smoker spends $1400.25 a year.

People think that when they smoke they are smoking pure tobacco, and think nothing else of the other ingredients in cigarettes. Other ingredients include acetic acid, acetoin, allyl ionone, ambergris tincture, ammonia, ammonium bicarbonate, ammonium hydroxide, ammonium phosphate dibasic, ammonium sulfide, amyl alcohol, amyl butyrate, amyl formate, amyl octanoate, amyris oil, trans-anethole, angelica root extract, angelica oil, anisyl acetate, anisyl alcohol, anisyl formate, anisyl phenylacetate, apple juice concentrate, apricot extract and juice concentrate, arsenic, ascorbic acid, balsam peru and oil, basil oil, bay leaf, oil and sweet oil, beet juice concentrate, benzoic acid, benzoin, benzophenone, benzyl alcohol, benzyl benzoate, benzyl butyrate, benzyl cinnamate, benzyl propionate, benzyl salicylate, bergamot oil, bisabolene, black currant buds absolute, borneol, butyric acid, cadinene, caffeine, calcium carbonate, camphene, capsicum oleoresin, caramel color, carbon dioxide, carob bean and extract, carrot oil, cedrol, cellulose fiber, chicory extract, chocolate, cinnamyl alcohol, citral, citric acid, citronella oil, coconut oil, coffee, corn oil, corn silk, dehydromenthofurolactone, dill seed oil and extract, dimethyltetrahydrob

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