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Things you need to know about
smoking
Every hour you don't smoke, you become more
independent!
Just one cigarette will blow away all your effort!
You will
learn how to cope with stress without addictive chemicals.
You are re-gaining
your freedom if you don 't smoke
You are a good example to everyone if you
don 't smoke
You don't have to worry about the major cause of house fire
anymore! (Tobacco)
Smoking is NOT cool at all.
Smoking is for weak people,
you don't want to be one of them, do you?
Think about it. Why smoke if it
only has disadvantages?
Did you know
?
- Cigarettes contain more than 4000 chemical compounds and at least 400 toxic
substances.
- When you inhale, a cigarette burns at 700°C at the tip and around 60°C in
the core. This heat breaks down the tobacco to produce various toxins.
- Research has shown that smoking reduces life expectancy by seven to eight
years.
- Non-smokers and ex-smokers can also look forward to a healthier old age than
smokers.
- Ninety percent of lung cancer cases are due to smoking.
- For ex-smokers, it takes approximately 15 years before the risk of lung
cancer drops to the same as that of a non-smoker.
- About 8.6 million people in the U.S. have at least one serious illness
caused by smoking.
- Smoking light cigarettes is not better then smoking normal ones.
- Smokers have more stress than non-smokers. This has been proven by research.
- Most smokers think smoking is good for their social life, but smoking
isolates you. Many people don't want to be around smoking people.
- Drop for drop nicotine is more lethal than strychnine and three times
deadlier than arsenic.
- Nicotine is a teratogen capable of permanently damaging DNA.
- Upon ending all nicotine use the maximum amount of time it takes for your
body become 100% nicotine free is only three days.
- The maximum length of time before the symptoms of physical nicotine
withdrawal peak in intensity is only three days.
- Smoking makes you and your clothes stink. If you are a smoker, you will not
notice this, but other people do.
- Smoking illnesses cost on average eight days of disability leave per year.
- Nicotine is the most addictive drug of all when considering how
easy it is to get addicted and how difficult it is to break free.
- Recent studies have showed that nicotine selectively damages the brain.
- Worldwide every 6 seconds there is a smoking related death!
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