on tar 1. In your understanding, explain the statement "Cigarette Smoking is Dangerous to your Health". 2. As a student, how will you motivate someone to quit smoking? Cigarette smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, causes numerous diseases, and reduces smokers' overall health. Some of the known diseases caused by smoking are stroke, coronary heart disease, and lung cancer which are among the causes of death. Cigarettes contain nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide, and many other cancer-causing chemicals that are harmful to both smokers and nonsmokers. Nicotine is an addictive substance that increases heart rate and blood pressure. Tar is a carcinogen (the substance that causes cancer) that coats the teeth, damages the gums, numbs the taste buds, and causes bad breath. Carbon monoxide is toxic to the body that prevents hemoglobin to carry oxygen in the blood throughout the body. 2 ​