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This informative fact sheet aims to provide everything you need to know about not only the health dangers of smoking cigarettes, but also the financial repercussions and the promising, positive benefits of quitting this most deadly habit.
The financial impact alone of smoking is simply staggering. Imagine what you could buy yourself or your family with the money you spend each year on cigarettes. Now consider this-it is estimated that almost $80 million is spent per year in the United States to treat conditions caused by nicotine.
What You Must Know About Smoking
- Smoking cigarettes is the foremost preventable cause of all deaths.
- It isn't too late to quit-just minutes after putting out your last cigarette, your circulation, blood pressure and heart rate will have already improved. Just 24 hours later, your risk of a heart attack has dropped. Once you've gone just a few days smoke-free, any tissue in your lungs not permanently damaged will begin the process of healing itself.
- After 15 years of being completely smoke-free, an ex-smoker has about the same chances of having a stroke as someone who has never smoked in their lifetime.
- Smoking drains energy levels by increasing carbon monoxide in the bloodstream.
- Smoking not only causes lung cancer but also cancer of the mouth, larynx,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, pharynx, pancreas, and bladder.
- Nicotine can cause many diseases and illnesses including emphysema, chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), depression, diabetes, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer's disease.
- Sinus congestion or infections, chronic coughing, and shortness of breath will all eventually drastically improve or even completely disappear after becoming a non-smoker.
- Smoking during pregnancy is highly correlated with stillbirth, sudden infant death syndrome, and lower than average birth weight.
Little Known Facts About Cigarettes
- One in every four men smokes even in the face of these alarming risks.
- Secondhand smoke, or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is linked to 3,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login,000 deaths each year in the United States.
- Smoking impairs fertility in both men and women.
- A pack of cigarettes is host to over 4,000 chemicals, including formaldehyde, insecticide, acetone (of nail polish remover fame) and hydrazine (rocket fuel.)
- 8 out of 10 smokers first puffed a cigarette before reaching the age of 18.
- 8 out 10 smokers also report having extreme withdrawal symptoms when attempting to quit smoking, and the drug nicotine has been likened to heroin in terms of its addictive qualities.
- Some of the most popular methods people use to try to become healthy and smoke-free include nicotine replacement therapy, such as gums, patches or lozenges, as well as medications including varenicline or bupropion,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, both of which require a prescription from a physician.
- Every day, almost 5,000 teenagers try their first cigarette.
This informative fact sheet aims to provide everything you need to know about not only the health dangers of smoking cigarettes, but also the financial repercussions and the promising, positive benefits of quitting this most deadly habit.
The financial impact alone of smoking is simply staggering. Imagine what you could buy yourself or your family with the money you spend each year on cigarettes. Now consider this-it is estimated that almost $80 million is spent per year in the United States to treat conditions caused by nicotine.
What You Must Know About Smoking
- Smoking cigarettes is the foremost preventable cause of all deaths.
- It isn't too late to quit-just minutes after putting out your last cigarette, your circulation, blood pressure and heart rate will have already improved. Just 24 hours later, your risk of a heart attack has dropped. Once you've gone just a few days smoke-free, any tissue in your lungs not permanently damaged will begin the process of healing itself.
- After 15 years of being completely smoke-free, an ex-smoker has about the same chances of having a stroke as someone who has never smoked in their lifetime.
- Smoking drains energy levels by increasing carbon monoxide in the bloodstream.
- Smoking not only causes lung cancer but also cancer of the mouth, larynx,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, pharynx, pancreas, and bladder.
- Nicotine can cause many diseases and illnesses including emphysema, chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), depression, diabetes, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer's disease.
- Sinus congestion or infections, chronic coughing, and shortness of breath will all eventually drastically improve or even completely disappear after becoming a non-smoker.
- Smoking during pregnancy is highly correlated with stillbirth, sudden infant death syndrome, and lower than average birth weight.
Little Known Facts About Cigarettes
- One in every four men smokes even in the face of these alarming risks.
- Secondhand smoke, or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is linked to 3,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login,000 deaths each year in the United States.
- Smoking impairs fertility in both men and women.
- A pack of cigarettes is host to over 4,000 chemicals, including formaldehyde, insecticide, acetone (of nail polish remover fame) and hydrazine (rocket fuel.)
- 8 out of 10 smokers first puffed a cigarette before reaching the age of 18.
- 8 out 10 smokers also report having extreme withdrawal symptoms when attempting to quit smoking, and the drug nicotine has been likened to heroin in terms of its addictive qualities.
- Some of the most popular methods people use to try to become healthy and smoke-free include nicotine replacement therapy, such as gums, patches or lozenges, as well as medications including varenicline or bupropion,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, both of which require a prescription from a physician.
- Every day, almost 5,000 teenagers try their first cigarette.