Vacuum Cleaner Experiment Reveals The Chemicals Left In Your Body After Smoking Just One Cigarette | HuffPost Life

This DIY Experiment Will Make You Want To Quit Smoking

Rachel Moss— The Huffington Post UK

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We all know smoking damages our health, but one YouTube user has created a video that really hits the message home.

With a DIY science experiment, vlogger CrazyRussianHacker demonstrates how many chemicals are left in the body after smoking just one cigarette.

He places a white coffee filter at one end of a vacuum cleaner and a cigarette at the other, using cardboard to stabilise his apparatus.

He then turns on the machine to mimic the process of smoking.

The cigarette quickly burns down, and the vblogger holds the yellow-stained coffee filter to the camera.

"Look at the dirt inside of it, just from one cigarette," he says.

It's enough to put even the most die-hard smoker off cigarettes.

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15 Undeniable Facts About Smoking

FACT 1(01 of15)

Every cigarette you smoke reduces your expected life span by 11 minutes. (credit:Jasper White via Getty Images)

FACT 2(02 of15)

There are roughly 10 million adults who smoke cigarettes in Great Britain. (credit:Bertrand Demee via Getty Images)

FACT 3(03 of15)

Two-thirds of smokers start before the age 18. (credit:Flying Colours Ltd via Getty Images)

FACT 4(04 of15)

The proportion of the population who are smokers has decreased since the 1970s. A sixth of the population smoke now, in comparison to nearly half of the adult population smoking in 1974. (credit:DraÅ¾en LovriÄ‡ via Getty Images)

FACT 5(05 of15)

More men smoke than women.In Great Britain, 22% of adult men and 19% of adult women are smokers. (credit:ONOKY - Fabrice LEROUGE via Getty Images)

FACT 6(06 of15)

More than half (59%) of all adults report that they have never smoked. (credit:Dimitri Otis via Getty Images)

FACT 7(07 of15)

Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemical compounds including: carbon monoxide, arsenic, formaldehyde, cyanide, benzene, toluene and acrolein. (credit:murengstockphoto via Getty Images)

FACT 8(08 of15)

Smoking poses a huge risk to your cardiovascular system.It also steals some of your good cholesterol, increases the risk of clotting and temporarily raises your blood pressure. (credit:Jeffrey Hamilton via Getty Images)

FACT 9(09 of15)

Immediately after you quit smoking, your lungs and other smoke-damaged organs start to repair themselves. (credit:Oko_SwanOmurphy via Getty Images)

FACT 10(10 of15)

Smoking is England’s biggest killer. Half of all regular cigarette smokers will eventually be killed by their addiction. (credit:Westend61 via Getty Images)

FACT 11(11 of15)

100,000 smokers in the UK die every year from smoking related causes. (credit:Shui Ta Shan via Getty Images)

FACT 12(12 of15)

In 2012-13 the Government earned £12.3 billion in revenue from tobacco tax. (credit:Jasper James via Getty Images)

FACT 13(13 of15)

Usage of electronic cigarettes has tripled in the past two years. 2.1 million adults in Great Britain now use them. (credit:diego_cervo via Getty Images)

FACT 14(14 of15)

A report by Dr Robert West of University College London found that e-cigarette use from popular brands is expected to be at least 20 times safer (and probably considerably more so) than smoking tobacco cigarettes. (credit:mangojuicy via Getty Images)

FACT 15(15 of15)

7.9% of smokers have kicked the habit in the past year. (credit:AdamGregor via Getty Images)

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