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Is smoking a cigarette a physical or chemical change?
Smoking cigarette is a chemical process.
What is the most dangerous chemical in a cigarette?
Carcinogens
What percentage of the chemical in a cigarette is addictive?
The amount of nicotine in each cigarette is approximately 1 mg. This makes it a very small percentage of all of the chemicals in a cigarette. (Just the nicotine is the addictive component.)
How many chemicals do you inhale from each cigarette?
I think 4,000 chemical compounds.
What is the chemical in cigarette smoke that reduces the ability of blood to carry oxygen?
carbon monoxide
How many emphysema cases come from smoking?
Heavy cigarette smoking causes about 80-90% of all emphysema cases
What chemical alteration of the blood stream results from emphysema?
Emphysema causes lower oxygen levels in the blood.
What are the cause of emphysema?
Cigarette smoking, on a chronic long-term basis, is the chief cause of emphysema (COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). There are many other causes, including the various pneumoconioses.
What are the main reasons of emphysema?
Basically cigarette smoking
Is it more harmful to inhale a pipe tobacco rolled cigarette apose to a cigarette tobacco rolled cigarette?
All types of smoke have tar, which gets into the lungs and causes emphysema and/or chronic bronchitis. The only difference between pipe smoke and cigar/cigarette smoke is that pipe smoke - in my opinion - smells better.
What effect does cigarette smoking have on your lungs and oxygen delivery and carbon dioxide?
Smoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. The strain of smoking effects on the body often causes years of suffering. Emphysema is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure. Emphysema makes it difficult to breath and cannot be cured.
Where can one learn how to smoke safely?
There is never a safe way to smoke a cigarette. Smoking causes a variety of health problems including lung cancer, emphysema, stroke, and bronchitis.
Is emphysema preventable?
In 99% cases it is, as a major risk factor is cigarette smoking.
What is a disease that destroys lung tissue and causes difficulty in breathing?
emphysema
What to expect with emphysema?
The related link below will tell you everything about emphysema, causes and treatment.
Is smoking a cigarette a physical or chemical change?
Smoking cigarette is a chemical process.
Which is the main ingredient of cigarette which cause emphysema and cancer?
its tar because of its sticky property
