Smoking

What are the reasons that people come out with for smoking??
· Reliving Stress??
· Addiction??
· Because my friends do??
Do people who do not smoke not have stress??

Because I do but have never turned around and said I need a ‘fag’. If you didn’t smoke in the first place how would you be addicted and why would u need to turn to a cigerette to help relive stress??
Was looking cool and fitting in with your friends worth taking days off your life??
Children who smoke in school probably don’t even realise what they are getting themselves in for, it is not like you can have a few and forget. They are additive and need to be avoided.

Cigarettes contain more than 4000 chemical compounds and at least 400 toxic substances.

Statistics from Cancer Research UK
The link between tobacco and cancer was established more than 50 years ago.
Smoking causes almost 90% of lung cancer deaths.
In the UK, more than 1 in 5 adults smoke cigarettes, that’s around 11 million people.
Less than 1% of 11 and 12 year olds in England are smokers, but this rises to 20% by age 15.
Stopping smoking before middle age avoids most of the risk of smoking-related lung cancer.
Living with someone who smokes, or exposure to second-hand smoke at work, increases risk of lung cancer in non-smokers by about a quarter.
It is estimated that in the UK, around 12,000 deaths each year are attributable to environmental tobacco smoke.
Radon is a naturally occurring gas that increases risk of lung cancer, especially among smokers.

When smoking people don’t only harm themselves but others as well due to passive smoking, International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2004 confirmed that risk of lung cancer was increased by 20- 30% for people who lived with a smoker.

If people don’t think of themselves they should at least think of the lives and health of the people around them that they must care about.

Parents who smoke are disgusting! What example are they setting out for their children?? And how are they helping them develop?? Children do take in passive smoke!! The smoke that comes off a cigarette between puffs carries a higher risk than directly inhaled smoke. Children who grow up in a home where one or both of their parents smoke have twice the risk of getting asthma and asthmatic bronchitis. They also have a higher risk of developing allergies.

And what about women who smoke during pregnancy?? I don’t think that the point that it is harming their baby could be made any clearer by the media and hospitals, yet they do it, do they not care or have a heart?

STOP SMOKING
It kills!
It smells!
It makes you teeth yellow!
It makes you skin go horrible and dry!

http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/

http://personal.lse.ac.uk/HHCOMM/thebuilding/

http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/types/lung/

http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/