I've read chie's blog (bhem's friend) post about cigarettes...i'm not a cigarette addict...but I smoke occasionally…ahm so, I decided to make a blog entry about cigarettes, the health effects of cigarettes, and most importantly, tips to help you quit cigarette smoking…Over 40,000 careful studies have proven that smoking causes disease and death. Every medical and health agency agrees. Every year, more deaths are caused by smoking-related diseases compared to AIDS, drug abuse, car accidents and murder combined.
· Cancer is the second leading cause of death and was among the first diseases causually linked to smoking.
· Smoking causes about 90% of lung cancer deaths in men and almost 80% of lung cancer deaths in women. The risk of dying from lung cancer is more than 23 times higher among men who smoke cigarettes, and about 13 times higher among women who smoke cigarettes compared with never smokers.
Women and Smoking: The Facts
- Lung cancer has now surpassed breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer deaths among women.
- Current female smokers aged 35 and older are more than 10 times as likely to die from emphysema or chronic bronchitis than nonsmoking females.
- Americans are starting to smoke at a younger age, especially young girls.
- Pregnant smokers have higher rates of miscarriage, stillbirths and babies who are born too soon. More of their babies die soon after birth from crib death than newborns of nonsmoking mothers.
- As more women start to smoke, their death rates from smoking-related lung diseases are fast approaching male smoking rates.
- Cigarette smoking is the #1 cause of cancer death in men.
- Current male smokers over age 35 are almost 10 times more likely to die of lung disease and 22 times more likely to die from lung cancer than nonsmoking males.
· Make a list of your reasons for quitting and say them often.
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