Even if you are on the older side, you have probably spent most of your life being lectured about how smoking is bad for you. Even in a time when doctors recommended cigarettes to adults, children were hypocritically told that cigarettes were bad for them, and that they should never smoke, only to be told later in life that it was what all the adults did, and it was more or less expected of them, there actually being a time when non-smokers were the uncommon group.
But, you may not really be aware of why the smoke causes the harm it does. Obviously, it causes things like cancer, heart disease and much more, but why? Well, it all has to do with how combustion works and what smoke is. When something burns, it’s actually just a type of chemical reaction were a whole lot of energy is released rapidly. A flame is just heated gas and smoke itself, not some sort of magical substance.
During this process, the smoke is created, and smoke is also made of ash, several car
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