So you want to keep smoking. Think about this.

Smoking is a major factor in the cause or acerbation of

• Asthma
• Bladder Cancer
• Breast Cancer
• Cateracts
  
• Cervical Cancer
• Childhood Respiratory Ailments - Children exposed to parents tobacco smoke have six times as many respiratory infections as children of non-smoking parents.
• Diabetes - Smoking decreases the body's absorption of insulin and hardens already threatened blood vessels.
• Emphysema
• Oesophageal Cancer
• Gangrene
  
• Gastrointestinal Cancer
• Heart Disease
• High Blood Preasure
  
• Infertility
• Kidney Cancer
• Leukimia
  
• Mouth Cancer
• Premature Aging
• Pregnancy smoking by mother increase risk of premature, underweight or stillborn babies
  
• Stroke
• Throat Cancer
• Death or disease of non-smokers around you – spouse – children, through second-hand smoking from you.
  
• Affects children in pregnancy, restricted development
• Life expectancy reduced by10-25
• Sexual dysfunction, -Hardens blood vessels and  reduces genital activity, erections, sperm activity
• Under investigation. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and others
  

THE BAD NEWS

As a working estimate:

Every cigarette you smoke reduces your life-span by 11 minutes.
For the life you have left, it reduces your quality of life [i.e., you are diseased] by 11 minutes.

So, 20 a day means that TODAY you reduced your life by 3 hours 36 minutes and for the remaining time you have left you chose another diseased 3 hours 36 minutes. Now if you multiply that by the days in a year ..... so 55 days lost for every year smoking. And you very probably do get to have a selection of the above diseases.

>> The latest from research. Deaths from smoking start at age 35 years. Half of all smokers die early because they smoked, directly through cancer and related diseases. Professor Chris Amos (M D Anderson Cancer Centre) said that there are so many cancer-causing compounds in tobacco smoke that it's hard to separate them ..."

THE GOOD NEWS

Your health begins to improve the minute you stop smoking, and continues to improve.

The health of the people around you continues to improve.

BY THE WAY

(for those who haven't smoked, or who have given up)

IF SOMEONE IS SMOKING. Are you breathing any of their smoke? It could be causing you physical harm.