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    Gateway drugs are commonly available legal substances like cigarettes and alcohol that some believe can lead to the use of illegal drugs. Cigarettes contain nicotine and other cancer-causing chemicals. Smoking cigarettes has many negative health impacts, including increased risk of various cancers, decreased immune system function, poor academic performance in students, increased risk of mental illness, and physical addiction to nicotine. Long-term cigarette smoking is linked to cancer of the mouth, throat, lungs, liver, colon and other organs.

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    Gateway drugs are commonly available legal substances like cigarettes and alcohol that some believe can lead to the use of illegal drugs. Cigarettes contain nicotine and other cancer-causing chemicals. Smoking cigarettes has many negative health impacts, including increased risk of various cancers, decreased immune system function, poor academic performance in students, increased risk of mental illness, and physical addiction to nicotine. Long-term cigarette smoking is linked to cancer of the mouth, throat, lungs, liver, colon and other organs.

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    Gateway drugs are commonly available legal substances like cigarettes and alcohol that some believe can lead to the use of illegal drugs. Cigarettes contain nicotine and other cancer-causing chemicals. Smoking cigarettes has many negative health impacts, including increased risk of various cancers, decreased immune system function, poor academic performance in students, increased risk of mental illness, and physical addiction to nicotine. Long-term cigarette smoking is linked to cancer of the mouth, throat, lungs, liver, colon and other organs.

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    Gateway drugs are commonly available legal substances like cigarettes and alcohol that some believe can lead to the use of illegal drugs. Cigarettes contain nicotine and other cancer-causing chemicals. Smoking cigarettes has many negative health impacts, including increased risk of various cancers, decreased immune system function, poor academic performance in students, increased risk of mental illness, and physical addiction to nicotine. Long-term cigarette smoking is linked to cancer of the mouth, throat, lungs, liver, colon and other organs.

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    What are Gateway drugs?

    Gateway drugs are legal drugs that can be accessed and can be used by everyone at any age through the local store like
    cigarettes and consumable alcohol.

    What is cigarette?

    A cigarette is a cylindrical roll wrapped in paper with shredded or ground tobacco inside. It contains nicotine and other
    cancer-causing chemicals. When the smoke of a cigarette is inhaled, it will go directly to the lungs and can cause cancer
    in the mouth, throat, larynx, esophagus, and heart disease.

    What is Cigarette Smoking?

    Cigarette smoking is the practice of smoking tobacco and inhaling tobacco smoke.

    Impacts of Cigarette Smoking

    1. Body Odor – the absorption of nicotine into the body, both into the lungs and the skin affects the sweat glands.
    Consuming nicotine causes a person to sweat more and affects the way it smells.
    2. Bad Breath and Tooth Decay – Tobacco is one of the sources causing bad breath. Moreover, cigarettes as a
    product of tobacco can cause several oral health problems. Smoking can stain your teeth and put you in danger
    of several health issues.
    3. Decreases the function of immune system – smoking harms the system of the body making it less successful at
    fighting diseases. The system is the body’s way of protecting itself from infection and disease; it works to fight
    common illnesses like cold and flu viruses leading serious conditions like cancer. Additionally, smoking affects the
    body’s equilibrium, or balance of the system.
    4. Develop different types of cancer – according to a study by researchers from the American cancer society
    (Simon, 2015), almost half the deaths (48.5%) are from twelve (12) differing kinds of cancer combined are
    attributed to cigarette smoking. Cancer types known to be caused by smoking include cancer of the liver, colon
    and rectum, lung, mouth and throat, esophagus, larynx (voice box), stomach, pancreas, bladder, kidney, cervix
    and acute chronic leukemia.
    5. Poor Academic Performance – students who engaged to smoking are more likely to decrease attentiveness,
    cognitive, and memory functions.
    6. Mental Illness – Smoking can cause physical symptoms like headaches or breathlessness likewise making people
    extremely irritable, and anxious or low. These feelings can alter our behavior.
    7. Loss of interest – When smoking, less oxygen is delivered to the body’s cells, to the heart and lungs. This
    decrease in oxygen will reduce as smokers’ physical endurance.
    8. Addiction – Consuming nicotine through regular cigarettes or vaping results in the discharge of the chemical
    dopamine within the human brain. Like many drugs, dopamine prompts or teaches the brain to repeat the
    identical behavior over and over. This can also be referred to as reinforcement.

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