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Allright, we all know smoking is a horrific habit but sometimes you need to see some scary #$#^ to wake you up a bit. Read this every day if you have to if it’s gonna help you or a loved one quit smoking.

ANNUAL DEATHS FROM SMOKING VS. OTHER CAUSES: (As of 2000)

This has obviously increased drastically.

• Smoking - 468,000 deaths annually
• Alcohol - 107,000 deaths annually
• Microbial Agents - 90,000 annually
• Toxic Agents - 60,000 annually
• Sexual Behavior - 40,000 annually
• Firearms - 35,000 annually
• Motor Vehicles - 25,000 annually
• Illicit/Illegal Drugs - 20,000 annually

SMOKING AND BREAST CANCER:

• Women who smoke suffer a 25 to 75% increased risk of breast cancer when compared to women who don’t smoke.
• The more and longer women smoked the higher the risk of breast cancer.

COLON CANCER AND SMOKERS:

• Smoking leaves a cancer-producing effect on the large intestine that will probably last throughout your life.
• Smokers can double their risk of colon cancer.
• Reasonably thinking then, the sooner you quit, the less risk you have of colon cancer.

MORTALITY OF SMOKERS:

• Smokers lose an average of 21 years of life.
• At least 25% of all smokers will die prematurely from a smoking-induced illness.

SMOKING AND THE THE YOUTH AGES 12 TO 18:

• 75% of young smokers who try to quit are unsuccessful.
• 54% do not expect to be smoking a year later.
• Nowadays girls are just as likely to smoke as are boys.
• Teens are more likely to smoke if friends and family do.
• Risk takers are more likely to smoke than non risk takers.
• White teens are 3 times more likely to smoke than black teens.

TEENS AND A SMOKING CATASTROPHE:

• Even if current rates of smoking were to merely stay the same, 20 million of the 70 million children in the US today would become smokers.
• At least 5 million of them can expect to die of smoking-related diseases.

HEALTH CARE COSTS OF LIFELONG SMOKERS:

• Almost a decade ago, in the year 2000 the excess lifetime medical expenditures for all of those smoking today in America will amount to approximately $500 billion dollars.
• This will amount to $50 billion in annual medical expenses for smokers. Please keep in mind these stats are 8 years old and are substantially worse now.
• Here’s another way to look at it. Each year more than 1 million youngsters start to smoke, adding an estimated $10 billion during their lifetimes to the health care costs US taxpayers will have to pay. Once again, these stats are from 2000 and have most certainly risen from then.

PASSIVE SMOKING DEATHS PER YEAR IN THE US (EST):

• Heart disease deaths: 35,000
• Lung cancer deaths: 5,000
• Deaths from other forms of cancer: 10,000

“Women who have never smoked face over twice the risk of developing lung cancer if they live for a significant period of time with smokers.” - Neil Nedly, M.D.

“When compared with offspring of nonsmokers, mothers who smoke at least 10 cigarettes a day during pregnancy give birth to children with IQ’s that average 9 points lower.” - Neil Nedly, M.D.

SMOKING DECREASES YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE:

• Hormonal abnormalities
• Greater risk of back injury and pain
• Reduced bone strength and increased likelihood of fractures
• Rapid loss of physical capacity
• Accelerated skin degeneration and wrinkling
• Advanced loss of vision
• Difficulty sleeping
• Likely cases of stomach ulcers
• Heartburn problems
• Accelerated hair loss and graying of hair

SMOKING ELEVATES YOUR RISK OF SUDDEN DEATH:

• Sudden death risk for smokers is 2 to 4 times greater than for nonsmokers.
• The risk of sudden death increases with the number of cigarettes smokes per day.
• The risk of sudden death seems to diminish almost immediately after kicking the smoking habit.

SMOKING, THE PILL, AND HEART ATTACKS:

• A female smoker taking “The Pill” and smoking more than 25 cigarettes per day has nearly 40 times the chance of having a heart attack than that of a nonsmoking female taking “The Pill”.

LUNG CANCER DEATH RATES BY THE NUMBER OF CIGARETTES SMOKES PER DAY:

• Nonsmokers have a death rate of lung cancer at 1
• Smoking 1-9 cigarettes a day will multiply your chances of lung cancer by 4.6%
• Smoking 10-19 cigarettes per day ups your chances of lung cancer to 8.6%
• By smoking 20-39 cigarettes per day your chances of lung cancer are raised to 14.7% over nonsmokers.
• And if you smoke 40 or more cigs per day your chances of getting lung cancer are a whopping 18.7% higher than those of nonsmokers!

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