Stop Smoking – Save Your Lungs and Life
With all these nearly inescapable health hazards, smog, etc, in the world to overcome, it’s incredible that millions of people harm their lungs even more by inhaling deadly tobacco smoke into their lungs.
Nicotine is poison! It immediately affects lung function and constricts your cardiovascular system. It destroys vitamin C, which is vital to your health and immune system. After only 12 hours of not smoking, nicotine blood levels fall and the heart and lungs begin healing. If you smoke, please stop now and be loving to your body.
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Teens Talk About Stopping Smoking
Ex-smoking teens testify that life is better, self-esteem higher and hope and joy for the future more profound after they quit smoking. Often these unfortunate children begin smoking before they are old enough to appreciate their hard-working lungs. They begin filling their miracle breathing lungs with health destroying tobacco when they are 16, 14 and even 10 years old! Stan B. recalls, “I started smoking when I was 12, to look cool.” Susan W. Says, “I smoked 2 packs a day from the time I was 16.”
As horrifying as these stories are, we can take heart from these youngsters and learn a lesson from their resiliency. Though they are young and the challenge they face is difficult, many teen smokers are winning the battle against the smoking habit – and feeling healthier and happier as a result! When it comes to quitting, Stan
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DEADLY SMOKING FACTS!
Tobacco use and also second-hand smoke will eventually kill over one fifth of the population now living in the developed world: about 250 million.
Of the 50 million Americans who smoke, one third to one half will die from a smoke-related disease and all will reduce their life expectancy by an average of nine years.
Smoking acts as either a stimulant or a depressant – depending upon the smoker’s emotional state.
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What Deadly Smoking Does to You And Those Around You
When people inhale deadly tobacco smoke into their miracle lungs, the protective cilia hairs filter out much of the smoke’s harmful substances before it is exhaled. This means that while harmful toxins are trapped in the delicate linings of the smokers’ lungs, fewer of these toxins are re-released into the air for others to breathe in. However, between a smoker’s deadly puffs, the cigarette burns directly into the air. This smoke is known as “secondhand, side-stream” smoke, but it should be called “direct” smoke. Smoke that burns directly into the air is completely unfiltered and more deadly than the smokers’ smoke! Stay away from all deadly smoke!
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