| Who wouldn't want to stop from smoking cigarettes | | | | compounds that are believed to cause a number of |
| once you've become aware of it's danger? Smoking | | | | cancers, such as in lungs, stomach, mouth, throat and |
| cigarettes is said to increase the risk to various | | | | so on. |
| illnesses, disability and even death. It does not only | | | | Lung diseases. Chronic bronchitis and emphysema are |
| affect the smoker but also other people's health by a | | | | irreversible lung diseases caused by cigarette smoking. |
| secondhand smoke. If you are into smoking, then you | | | | The carbon monoxide deprives your organs and |
| probably will incur these health dangers to you and to | | | | tissues of oxygen. The tar in cigarettes also |
| nonsmoking people around you: | | | | accumulates in your lungs that in time there will be less |
| Heart disease, stroke and amputation. Smoking has | | | | air to pass through. That's why smoking can make |
| been linked with sudden cardiac arrest to both men | | | | breathing rather difficult over time. |
| and women. The poisonous chemicals in cigarettes | | | | Dangers of secondhand smoke. Smoking endangers |
| contribute in the development of plaques in the arteries. | | | | not only the smoker's health but also that of |
| These plaques lead to hardening of the arteries or | | | | non-smokers around him. Secondhand smoke is the |
| atherosclerosis. The nicotine and carbon monoxide in | | | | major cause of lung cancer in non-smokers. It also |
| cigarettes are said to increase blood pressure and | | | | causes asthma, ear infections, pneumonia, and |
| heart rate. This can lead to serious heart attack and | | | | bronchitis in children. |
| stroke. These conditions can lead to paralysis, even to | | | | These are only some of the dangers of smoking |
| getting your limbs amputated -- or worst -- death. | | | | cigarettes and quitting is the best way to end all these |
| Cancers. Cigarettes contain many carcinogenic | | | | risks. |