Never Smoke!!!

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11-30-12 P.6

Reasons Why Not to Smoke

• One it is a bad habit• You are showing disrespect to others around

you• It affects your healthy with many things• It costs a lot of money, when instead you

could keep all of that money and use it for other productive things

• It reduces your life expectancy

Harmful Effects of Smoking

• Smoking causes death.• Smoking causes a variety of diseases.• Smoking causes lung, throat, mouth

cancer, and a variety of many other cancers as well

• Causes sudden infant death syndrome in pregnant women

• Can lead to Bronchitis

Major Effects• The mixture of nicotine

and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels.

• This can cause heart attacks and stroke. It slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers even end up having their limbs amputated.

What Smoking Does To You

How To Avoid Smoking

• Never touch the stuff, never even go near it.

• If someone offers you a smoke, do not take it, instead advise them to stop as well.

• Don’t hang around people who smoke, it can cause you bad health, they give off second hand smoke which is deadlier than regular smoke.

Smoking Facts• Each day 3,000 children smoke their first cigarette.• At least 3 million adolescents are smokers.• Tobacco use primarily begins in early adolescence,

typically by age 16.• Almost all first use occurs before high school

graduation.• 20 percent of American teens smoke.• Roughly 6 million teens in the US today smoke

despite the knowledge that it is addictive and leads to disease.

• Of every 100,000 15 year old smokers, tobacco will prematurely kill at least 20,000 before the age of 70.

• Of the 3,000 teens who started smoking today, nearly 1,000 will eventually die as a result from smoking.

• Adolescent girls who smoke and take oral birth control pills greatly increase their chances of having blood clots and strokes.

• According to the Surgeon's General, Teenagers who smoke were: Three times more likely to use alcohol.

• Eight times are likely to smoke marijuana.• And 22 times more likely to use Cocaine.

Choose The Right!!!• Never Smoke, Ever. It will lead you to

many diseases and worst of all, it will lead you to death. Never try it, never go around people who do the stuff, and if you have been smoking for a while, stop. It won’t make you a happy person. Choose The Right and either stop or never start it!