Why We Should Quit Smoking?

Did you know that smoking kills more American each year than alcohol, fires,

automobile accidents and AIDS combine?

Did you also know that cigarette-initiated fires kill one thousand five hundred

Americans each year? That is the equivalent of ten plane crashes.

According to Tobacco and Youth Reporter Autumn 1990 sixty percent of smokers

start using cigarettes by the age of thirteen. Young adults ages 18-24 are also the fastest-

growing group of smokers. The younger a child starts smoking, the more likely they will

end up with lung cancer, according to the recent research from the Harvard School of

Public Health.

Some reasons why we should quit smoking are as follows. We will definitely

live longer and better. In 1986, lung cancer surpassed breast cancer as the leading cause

of cancer death in women. Each time we smoke it takes 5-20 minutes off our life. Our

chance of getting lung cancer, stroke or heart attack increases. Four hundred thousands

Americans die each year from smoking.

Secondhand smoking is more dangerous than the actual smoke users get from

smoking. More than forty-six thousands Americans die each year from secondhand

smoking. Secondhand smoking irritates the lungs and other tissues and is linked to a

variety of diseases including asthma, bronchitis, and lung cancer.

If you're pregnant, chances of having a healthier baby is more likely if you quit.

Low birth weight, sudden infant death syndrome, ear infections, and juvenile asthma are

just some of the health problems secondhand smoke causes in children. In 2002, 11.4

percent of mothers smoked during pregnancy. Mothers who smoke can pass nicotine to

their children through breast milk.

Remember that, smoking brings you new friends. The cigarette salesman, the

doctor