1. Why Smoke a Cigarette? by Craig Triano So many people are smoking cigarettes every day. Why do something that affects you in a bad way? How to Learn More And Reply to this Article... What Smoking Does To Your Mouth Secondhand Smoke What's In A Cigarette Cancer A bunch of cigarettes piled up.

2. How to Learn More And Reply to this Article... What Smoking Does To Your Mouth Secondhand Smoke What's In A Cigarette? Cancer The most common sickness from smoking is cancer. There are many different types of cancer that people can get from smoking. Some types are: bladder cancer lung cancer cancer of the kidneys breast cancer …and more If you smoke you are more likely to get cancer than a person who doesn't smoke. The most common type of cancer smokers get is lung cancer. If no one smoked, lung cancer would be a very rare disease because most of the people who have lung cancer smoke or smoked. The more cigarettes you smoke the higher risk you have of getting lung cancer and other cancers. Lung cancer and other cancers can develop when you smoke, so why would you smoke? POWER WORDS! Common :something that happens a lot Lung: An organ in your body that helps you breathe THINK: If smoking causes something so bad such as cancer why would someone smoke?

3. HowHow to Learn MoretoLearn More And Reply to this Article.And Reply to this Article... What Smoking Does To Your Mouth Secondhand Smoke What's In A Cigarette? Cancer A picture showing some things in a cigarette. What's In A Cigarette? There are so many hurtful chemicals and ingredients in a cigarette. One bad ingredient in a cigarette is tobacco. Tobacco is a green leafy plant. There are over 4,000 chemicals in a cigarette. Fifty one of them are carcinogenic. Carcinogenic means something that causes cancer. Chemicals in a cigarette don’t only cause cancer, they cause other diseases as well. Chemicals in a cigarette are so bad that if a person ate a pack of cigarettes they would die. One chemical in a cigarette is nicotine. Nicotine causes the addiction to cigarettes. Most times, once someone starts smoking cigarettes it can be hard to stop smoking them because of the nicotine. Another bad chemical is carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is a tasteless and odorless poisonous gas. This is the same gas that comes out of car exhausts. Carbon monoxide is the main part of cigarette smoke. POWER WORDS! Disease: a bad sickness you can catch Poison an ingredient that can kill you

4. How to Learn More And Reply to this Article... What Smoking Does To Your Mouth Secondhand Smoke What's In A Cigarette Cancer Secondhand Smoke Another name for secondhand smoke is environmental tobacco smoke[ETS]. Secondhand smoke is a mixture of two forms that come from a burning cigarette. Side stream smoke is one type and it comes from the end of a burning cigarette. Mainstream smoke is the smoke that is exhaled from a smoker. Side stream smoke is more likely to give you cancer than mainstream smoke. When non-smokers breathe in a smoker’s smoke they are breathing in nicotine and other toxic chemicals. The more smoke from cigarettes you are exposed to, the higher risk there is of getting these chemicals in your body. If you are a non-smoker and you live with a smoker you have a 25% increase of having a heart attack or a stroke. Secondhand smoke is such a terrible thing. POWER WORDS! Nicotine: a chemical that causes addiction Exposed: relating to experience of something A picture of a person being affected from cigarette and cigar smoke

5. How to Learn More And Reply to this Article... What Smoking Does To Your Mouth Secondhand Smoke What's In A Cigarette? Cancer What Smoking Does To Your Mouth Smoking doesn't just cause bad sicknesses it also causes bad things to happen to a person’s mouth. Some things that can happen tare: bad breath, tooth discoloration, openings to the roof of your mouth, increased plaque on your teeth, and so many other bad things. Gum disease is a terrible thing that a person can get from smoking. When you smoke it affects the bone and soft tissue on your gums. Smoking will make your mouth look unbelievably gross and I wouldn’t want my mouth to look gross. POWER WORDS! Discoloration: Something turning a different color Roof: The top of something Gums: The reddish part above your top teeth and below your bottom teeth THINK: Why would you want to smoke if your mouth and teeth will look gross?

6. How to Learn More And Reply to this Article... What Smoking Does To Your Mouth Secondhand Smoke What's In A Cigarette Cancer How to Learn More and Reply to this Article... To learn more about the effects of smoking, go to the websites below: www.quitwww.quit- smoking.comsmoking.com www.cancer.org To respond to this Feature Article, go to the Watson’s Winners Blog, below:Watson’s Winners Blog http://cwatsondps.wordpress.com/