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__i <3 english so im going to extinguish it.__ __Against Cigarettes__

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 * 1) 45% of respondents support a ban on cigarettes.
 * 2) its a personal choice of responsibility.
 * 3) they kill 400,000 people prematurely every year from smoking.
 * 4) cigarettes kill more people than cocaine, heroine, methamphetamine, and all other illegal drugs combined.
 * 5) cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known cancer-causing (carcinogenic) compounds and 400 other toxins.
 * 6) cigarette smoking causes emphysema.
 * 7) smoking is another major cause of people getting lung cancer.
 * 8) fungicides and pesticides- cause many types of cancers and birth defects.
 * 9) cadmium- linked to lung and prostate cancer.
 * 10) benzene- linked to leukemia.
 * 11) formaldehyde- linked to lung cancer.
 * 12) nickel- causes increased susceptibility to lung infections.
 * 13) ammonia- household cleaner.
 * 14) there are more than 4,000 ingredients in a cigarette other than tobacco.
 * 15) smoking causes 20% pf all deaths yearly.
 * 16) cigarettes are the most advertised projects
 * 17) cancer is the number 1 cause of death to men
 * 18) heart disease and stroke can occur if smoking.
 * 19) nicotine is the most addictive ingredient in a cigarette.
 * 20) 25.6% of whites in the US smoke
 * 21) in 2003, 380 deaths occurred from smoking cigarettes.
 * 22) in 2003, 57,400 new cases of bladder cancer were diagnosed and an estimated 12,500 died from the disease.
 * 23) when you inhale a cigarette, it burns at 700 degrees Celsius.

www.quitsmoking.com
 * 1) Research has shown that smoking reduces life expectancy by seven to eight years.
 * 2) Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death due to smoking.
 * 3) Smoking accelerates the hardening and narrowing process in your arteries: it starts earlier and blood clots are two to four times more likely.
 * 4) Smokers are more likely to get cancer than non-smokers.
 * 5) This is particularly true of lung cancer, throat cancer and mouth cancer, which hardly ever affect non-smokers.
 * 6) tar and nicotine are the most damaging ingredients in a cigarette.
 * 7) The number of people under the age of 70 who die from smoking-related diseases exceeds the total figure for deaths caused by breast cancer, AIDS, traffic accidents and drug addiction.
 * 8) Ninety percent of lung cancer cases are due to smoking.
 * 9) If no-one smoked, lung cancer would be a rare diagnosis.
 * 10) For ex-smokers, it takes approximately 15 years before the risk of lung cancer drops to the same as that of a non-smoker.
 * 11) If you smoke, the risk of contracting mouth cancer is four times higher than for a non-smoker.
 * 12) Smoking causes coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.
 * 13) Smoking causes abdominal aortic aneurysm.
 * 14) Women who smoke have an increased risk for hip fracture than women who never smoked.
 * 15) The most common birth defect associated with maternal smoking is a septal heart defect, which interrupts the steady flow of oxygen and blood to the rest of the body.
 * 16) smoking as a pregnant woman can effect and maybe even kill their baby before and during pregnancy.
 * 17) smokers have a harder time getting pregnant in the first place.
 * 18) eight to 10 live births out of every 1,000 are associated with CHDs, which often lead to death of the infant during his or her first year of life.

www.About.com
 * 1) nearly 11,000 washington babies were born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy.
 * 2) smokers are twice as likely to die from heart attacks.
 * 3) women over 35 who smoke and use birth control pills have a higher risk of having blood clots to the legs.
 * 4) second hand smoke also causes about 35,000 deaths from heart disease.
 * 5) every year between 200,000 and 1,000,000 asthmatic kids suffer from increasingly severe asthma attacks due to second hand smoke.
 * 6) stained teeth, fingers and hair.
 * 7) increased frequency of colds, and they get headaches.
 * 8) asthma, nausea, shortness of breath.
 * 9) smokers breath, lung cancer
 * 10) cancer of the tongue, lip, and bladder.
 * 11) high blood pressure, heart disease.
 * 12) decrease of sexual activity
 * 13) mental depression.
 * 14) nicotine affects the nerve-muscle junctions, causing tremors and shaking.
 * 15) two or four cigarettes in a row increase blood fats 200 to 400%
 * 16) the average smoker has 4-6 times the chance of having heart disease if he's in the 45-54 year age group.
 * 17) if the mother smoked during pregnancy, her baby will average 6 ounces less.
 * 18) the pregnant womans baby will be 30% faster than a non smokers baby.
 * 19) if a woman is smoking while pregnant, the baby will have withdrawl symptoms after birth.
 * 20) the baby could be premature.
 * 21) the baby could be born at a light weight.
 * 22) non smokers have cleaner teeth, fresher breath, and a better sense of smell.
 * 23) 120 people have died in 2 airline crashes that have been attributed to ashtray and lighter-fluid fires.
 * 24) a smoker needs much more food and sleep since nicotine makes his body work harder and less efficiently and the persons heart beats faster.
 * 25) second hand smoke kills about 3,000 nonsmokers each year from lung cancer.
 * 26) secondhand smoke causes up to 300,000 lung infections (such as bronchitis) in infants and young children each year.
 * 27) secondhand smoke causes wheezing, coughing, cold, earaches, and asthma attacks.
 * 28) secondhand smoke can produce six times the pollution of a busy highway.
 * 29) secondhand smoke fills the air with many of the same poisons found in the air around toxis waste dumps.
 * 30) teen smokers have similar lungs and weaker hearts than teens who dont smoke.
 * 31) addicted smokers tend to use more nicotine over time.
 * 32) it is estimated that about 4.5 million youth group in the United States are smokers.
 * 33) spit tobacco, pipes and cigars are not safe alternatives to cigarettes.
 * 34) those who start smoking young are more likely to have a long term addiction to nicotine than people who start smoking later in life.


 * 1) cigarettes are addictive.
 * 2) nicotine is what causes the addiction.
 * 3) smokers weigh less; usually about 7 pounds lighter.
 * 4) smoking cigarettes relieves stress.
 * 5) tobacco dependence and nicotine addiction can be treated.
 * 6) the death toll in projected to reach more than 8 million by 2030.
 * 7) there are 1.1 billion smokers in the world today, and if current trends continue, that number is expected to increase to 1.6 billion by the year 2025.
 * 8) china is home to 300 million smokers who consume approximately 1.7 trillion cigarettes a year, or 3 million cigarettes a minute.
 * 9) worldwide, approximately 10 million cigarettes are purchased a minute, 15 billion are sold each day, and upwards of 5 trillion are produced and used on an annual basis.
 * 10) its estimated that trillions of filters, filled with toxic chemicals from tobacco smoke, make their way into our environmental as discarded waste yearly.
 * 11) while they may look like cotton, cigarette filter are made of very thin fibers of a plastic called "cellulose acetate". a cigarette filter can take between 18 to 10 years to decompose.
 * 12) secondhand smoke contains more than 50 cancer-causing chemical compounds, 11 of which are known to be "Group 1 carcinogens".
 * 13) every eight seconds, a human life is lost to tobacco use somewhere in the world.

www.quitsmoking.about.com

www.cdc.gov
 * 1) during the 20th century, smoking killed about 100million people worldwide.
 * 2) 390,000 Americans die each year from the effects of cigarette smoking.
 * 3) smoking has been responsible for 16% of all deaths in the U.S each year.
 * 4) cigarettes are the most single traded item on the planet.
 * 5) cigarettes now make more money selling them around the globe than selling them in the U.S.
 * 6) road accidents, suicide, murder, AIDS and drugs and solvents and kill.
 * 7) smoking kills five times more people before their time than all these other causes of death put together.
 * 8) every 30 seconds someone somewhere in the world dies of lung cancer from cigarettes,
 * 9) scientists claim that the average smoker loses 14 years of their life.
 * 10) it is the ninth most common cause of death in the world and the most common form of cancer.
 * 11) cigarettes contain more than 4,000 ingredients.
 * 12) each year more Americans die of smoking.

www.cdc.gov www.healthline.com
 * 1) cigarettes are the leading cause of fires.
 * 2) smoking material fires have killed 680 people and injured 1,520 people.
 * 3) property losses from smoking material fires total hundreds-millions of dollars each year.
 * 4) trash, mattresses, and bedding are the most common know thing to burn in a fire.
 * 5) the effects of quitting start in less than 20 minutes.
 * 6) between 2004-2008, 40% of home fires victims were sleeping when injured
 * 7) 37% were attempting to escape to fight the fire, or to rescue other people.
 * 8) in 2011, states will collect $25.3 billion from tobacco taxes and legal settlements.
 * 9) states are spending only 2% of the $25.3 billion on tobacco control programs.
 * 10) after a couple weeks your able to perform exercise without feeling sick.

www.nutri.com
 * 1) For every person who dies of smoking-related illness,
 * 2) 20 more suffer from a chronic disease due to smoking.
 * 3) quitting smoking will protect your health.
 * 4) Smoking doesn't just hurt you. Second-hand smoke from your cigarettes is a serious danger to your children, family, and friends.
 * 5) Nicotine affects the nerve-muscle junctions.

__Reasons to stop smoking__


 * 1) you will have fewer wrinkles, and your breath will smell better.
 * 2) you will live longer and have a better health.
 * 3) you wont cough and your lungs will be in good condition.
 * 4) your babies wont be messed up and be born with disorders.
 * 5) if you smoke while your pregnant, it can really effect your babies health and could even kill them.
 * 6) if you would like to have lung cancer, emphysema, and a lot of other life risking diseases, you should keep smoking.
 * 7) almost half of the world's children breathe air polluted
 * 8) tobacco kills half its users.
 * 9) Smoking causes widespread permanent destruction of the tiny air sacs
 * 10) Foods will taste much better to non-smokers.
 * 11) The money now wasted on tobacco, if diverted elsewhere, would create a wealth of new job openings in industries producing goods and services more useful to the society than cigarettes.
 * 12) Smoking destroys vitamins, particularly vitamin C and the B's.
 * 13) The smoker's body cells have become addicted to nicotine, and to quit smoking won't be easy, since withdrawal symptoms can be expected.
 * 14) If you're a light smoker, you should quit immediately, only moderately shocking your system.
 * 15) Try to avoid situations that you associate with smoking, such as sitting in your favorite chair, particularly after dinner.
 * 16) When you get that urge to smoke, drink some water.
 * 17) Try to avoid situations that are conducive to smoking, such as bars, meetings, and boredom.
 * 18) Cigarette displays, cigarette ads, cigarette machines, anything having to do with smoking, must be looked upon in your mind as existing only for those poor unfortunates who are addicted to that filthy habit.
 * 19) when trying to stop, you will know after two weeks if you don't have an urge to smoke.
 * 20) In the United States alone, smoking have been named the single most avoidable cause of early deaths.
 * 21) Carbon monoxide smoke is a mix of the smoking emitted by the burning cigarette, pipe or even cigar, and the smoke blown out from smoker's lungs.