Don't choke on that Smoke
Cigarettes kill
Statistics
- There are more than one billion smokers in the world
- More than 80% of the world's smokers live in low and middle income countries
- Almost half of the world's children breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke
- Second hand smoke causes 33,951 annual deaths from heart disease
Problems and conditions
- It is a risk factor for six of the eight leading causes of deaths in the world
- Smoking can cause lung disease by damaging your airways and the small air sacs found in your lungs
- Smoking can make it harder for a woman to become pregnant
- Smoking is estimated to increase the risk of men developing lung cancer by 25 times
- Smoking is a cause of rheumatoid arthritis
Ways to Quit
- Nicotine Gum
- Acupuncture
- Nicotine Patch
- Varenicline (Chantix) - Prescription medicine
- Hypnosis
Quitting Smoking Timeline
Chemicals
- Ammonia- it is known to cause asthma and raise blood pressure
- Chromium- known to cause lung cancer-used in wood treatment,wood preservatives
- 2 aminonaphthalene- causes bladder cancer, banned in industrial uses
- Isoprene- used in rubber causes skin,eye, and mucous membrane irritation
- Propionaldehyde- used as a disinfectant irritates respiratory system