| Most people would agree that smoking is a bad habit. | | | | harm's way. It also hurts the people who are around |
| People who smoke often smell like cigarettes. They | | | | cigarette smoke, even if they aren't smoking |
| have ash in their hair, on their clothing, and on their | | | | themselves. Many smokers forget that those who are |
| furniture. They often have teeth that are yellow and | | | | around them when they light up are forced to breathe |
| stained, and that usually comes with bad breath. But | | | | in cigarette smoke. People exposed to secondhand |
| smoking is more than an annoying habit. It's also | | | | smoke don't get the benefit of a filter, either. Children |
| dangerous to your health. The dangers of smoking | | | | who grow up in a home where one or both of their |
| include many life-threatening diseases that are directly | | | | parents smoke are more likely to have asthma and |
| attributed to the chemicals contained in cigarette | | | | nasal allergies. Pregnant women exposed to |
| smoke. Smoking can also exacerbate other diseases. | | | | secondhand smoke also run a greater risk for the |
| The effect of smoking on your health is serious and | | | | same complications to which women who smoke are |
| should therefore be taken seriously. | | | | exposing their unborn children. |
| In 1966, the Surgeon General of the United States | | | | And, once again, smoking health problems can affect |
| began putting warnings on cigarette packaging, such | | | | one's physical appearance as well. The dangers of |
| as: "Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your | | | | smoking include alterations to your physical |
| health." The dangers of smoking include emphysema, | | | | appearance. The skin around your lips will tend to get |
| heart disease, lung cancer, and complications to | | | | thin and wrinkled if you smoke, as the chemicals in |
| pregnancy, such as fetal injury, premature birth, and | | | | cigarette smoke break down the skin's elasticity. The |
| low birth weight. These are all now specifically listed on | | | | smoker's teeth will become yellowed and stained by |
| cigarette packages to warn smokers of the risk that | | | | the tobacco in the cigarettes. Tooth whitening can only |
| comes with smoking cigarettes. But beyond these | | | | do so much, and can also make teeth sensitive. You |
| specific ailments, smoking can also increase your risk | | | | will also experience persistent bad breath. These may |
| for other conditions, like asthma, mouth and throat and | | | | not be as serious as the diseases that smoking can |
| even skin cancer, allergies, and even erectile | | | | cause, but they are still undesirable. Smoking is not |
| dysfunction. | | | | simply a bad habit. It is a dangerous one. |
| The dangers of smoking don't just put smokers in | | | | |