Smoking Diseases

• Did you know that many different diseases occur because of tobacco use, including cigarettes, cigars and smokeless tobacco? In fact, smoking is the most preventable cause of death and disease in the developed world.

• Smoking tobacco is known to suppress the immune system. This may leave the smoker open to a wide variety of aliments, sicknesses and problems.

• Each cigarette smoked is estimated to rob smokers of 5 minutes and 30 seconds of life.

• Experts on smoking have long maintained that nicotine is at least as addictive as heroin.

• Congress revives US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) effort to regulate cigarettes as a drug.

• One-third of all cancers are caused by tobacco use. But did you know that obesity and inactivity cause another one-third of all cancers? This according to a review of several reports by the President's Cancer Panel.

  
  

  Get Freebies You Can Actually Use

  
  

  Breath of Life

• Did you know that second hand smoke causes or contributes to:

  - cancer (lung, esophagus, mouth, larynx, bladder)
  - heart disease
  - heart attacks
  - congenital heart defects (CHD)
  - lung disease
  - emphysema
  - stroke
  - diabetes
  - respiratory symptoms (COPD, more severe asthma, wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness at night)
  - sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
  - metabolic syndrome
  - premature death?
  

  Imagine what smokers face. . .

• Unexplained sore throats, runny noses, coughing and ear problems may be a sign of smoke-related complications.

• Moms (dads too). Did you know that smoking causes low birth weight babies?
  More On Smoking Diseases

• Many tobacco users that quit experience withdrawl sysptoms.

Are you addicted to nicotine? Take the Nicotine Addiction Test.

Phone, email and in person smoking cessation support is available to help you quit. And don't forget about Smoke-Free, the book.

7 questions to quit smoking.

© Copyright by Arthur A. Hawkins II. All rights reserved.