Can you get cancer from smoking for 6 months

Cigarettes contain many dangerous chemicals. Some occur naturally in tobacco, and others are formed when processing tobacco into cigarettes. When a cigarette is burnt, it releases thousands more chemicals in tobacco smoke.

Many of these chemicals are harmful to people who smoke and also to people who breathe in second-hand smoke. We know that at least 70 of these chemicals cause cancer.

Roll-up tobacco cigarettes are not safer.

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They contain the same cancer-causing chemicals as manufactured cigarettes. Smoking using a filter, and smoking ‘low-tar’ or ‘light’ cigarettes also doesn’t reduce the risk of disease from smoking. These are not safer or healthier options, and in the UK it is against the law to call tobacco products ‘light’, ‘mild’ or ‘low-tar’.

Cigarettes are the most common type of tobacco used in the UK.

But tobacco comes in many different forms. These include cigars, pipes, shisha and smokeless tobacco, such as paan or snus. All forms of tobacco are addictive and cause cancer, so there is no safe way to use tobacco.

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