Health Consequences
If you need a reminder of how bad smoking is for you, here it is.
Most smokers will tell you they’ve always known WHY they should quit; what they’ve needed is a HOW to quit smoking — like the EX Plan. But if the grim facts help you stay committed to quitting smoking, here are some of the statistics.ONE HALF of lifelong smokers will die of a tobacco-related disease.
Smoking cigarettes is so deadly that every 6.5 seconds, someone in the world dies from a tobacco-related illness. That’s about 1,200 deaths per day and 450,000 a year in the U.S. alone — all from tobacco use.
Cigarette smoke contains 4,000 chemicals: hydrogen cyanide, formaldehyde, arsenic, ammonia and urea among them.
And if you’re a pregnant smoker, many of these chemicals are making their way to your baby. You’re not only harming yourself but your baby, too. Smoking while pregnant puts your baby at risk for premature delivery, low birth weight, childhood asthma and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
One final note: The poisons taken into the smoker’s body wreak havoc and cause illness in a number of ways. If you need a reminder of all the illnesses you risk giving yourself by smoking, take a look at the list below from the government’s Centers for Disease Control.
- Lung Cancer
- Coronary Heart Disease
- Laryngeal Cancer
- Oral Cavity and Pharyngeal Cancers
- Acute Respiratory Illnesses
- Chronic Respiratory Diseases
- Emphysema
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Bladder and Kidney Cancers
- Stomach Cancer
- Colorectal Cancer
- Prostate Cancer
- Acute Leukemia
- Liver Cancer
- Cervical Cancer
- Esophageal Cancer
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
- Fertility Problems
- Pregnancy Problems
- Loss of Bone Mass and the Risk of Fractures
- Erectile Dysfunction
- Peptic Ulcer Disease
It’s a long, bad list, isn’t it? For more information on the consequences of smoking cigarettes, visit the CDC’s website.
