Essay

Alexia Torres

Mrs. Goslinga

Health, Per. 4

December 16, 2013

Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drug Essay

Many things you put in your body can harm it severely. Tobacco, alcohol and drugs are the most dangerous substances that you can be put into your body and harm it. They can cause diseases, lifetime injuries, and even death. If you knew about what was in these substances and what they could do to your body, would you still use them? Would you listen to all of the warnings given to you or would you wait until you had a lifelong injury or was close to death? Just as a warning, you would want to be smart about what you put in your body. After reading about what harm can actually come I hope that you don’t do any of these things.

Smoking and chewing tobacco can harm your body in may ways. However, there are three long-term effects. Because of the nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide found inside tobacco, you can develop cardio vascular diseases, respiratory diseases, and cancer. Cardio vascular diseases occur in the heart and blood vessels. A smoker is three times more likely to suffer a heart attack and are five to ten times more likely to die from a heart attack. The nicotine causes fatty materials to form on your blood vessels. When this happens, the fatty materials constrict the vessels thus making the heart work harder to pump blood. Respiratory diseases consist of bronchitis and emphazima. Bronchitis is a condition in which the bronchial tubes become swollen and clogged with excess mucus. This happens because the tar in the tobacco destroys the silica which then causes you to have a hacking cough and can leave you being sick more often and longer. Emphazima is a breathing disorder in which the small air sacs in the lungs lose their ability to expand and contract. Oxygen passes through the air sacs into the bloodstream and carbon dioxide passes through the air sacs out of the body. With emphazima, they cant get enough oxygen into the body or rid the body of CO2....