There are many reasons why smoking is dangerous to your own and your family.
*Smoking increase the risk of cancer of the lungs and lips( the more you smoke,the greater the chance of dying of cancer).
*Smoking causes serious disease of the lungs including chronic bronchitis and emphysema( and is deadly for person who already have these condition or have asthma).
*Smoking can help cause stomach ulcer or make them worse.
*Children whose parents smoke have more cases of pneumonia and other respiratory illness than children whose parent do not smoke.
*Smoking increases your chance of suffering or dying from heart disease or stroke.
*Babies of mothers who smoked during pregnancy are smaller and develop more slowly than babies whose mothers did not smoke.
*Parents,teachers,health workers and others who smoke set unhealthy example for children and young people,increasing the livelihood that they too will begin smoking.
*Also smoking costs money,it looks like little is spent,but it adds up to a lots. In poorer countries,many of the poorest persons spend more on tobacco than the country spends per person on its health program. If money spent on tobacco was spent on food instead,children and whole families could be healthier.
*Anyone interested in the health of others should not smoke and should encourage others not to smoke.
This was posted from Smoke.Network