Facts About Smoking!
Posted on July 10, 2010
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If you have tried to quit smoking and failed before, take comfort in the fact that most adult smokers fail several times before quitting successfully. Past failures are not a lesson that you are unable to quit. Instead, view them as part of the normal journey toward becoming a nonsmoker.
Hurting Yourself:
* Smoking is an addiction. Tobacco smoke contains nicotine, a drug that is addictive and can make it very hard, but not impossible, to quit.
* Smoking greatly increase your risk for lung cancer and many other cancers.
Hurting Others:
* Smoking hards just the smoker, but alos family members, co-workers, and other who breathe the smoker’s cigarillo smoke, called secondhand smoke.
* Among infants to 18 months of age, secondhand smoke is associated with as many as 300,000 cases of bronchitis and pneumonia eash year.
* Secondhand smoke from a parent’s cigarette increases a child’s chances for middle ear problem, causes coughing and wheezing, and worsens
asthma conditions.
* If both parents smoke, a teenager is more than twice as likely to smoke than a young person whose parents are both nonsmokers. In households where only one parent smokes, young people are also more likely ti start smoking.
* Pregnant women who smoke are more likely to deliver babies whose weight are too low for the babies good health. If al women quit smoking during pregnancy, about 4,000 new babies would not die each year.
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