Smoking Cessation: Smash The Habit

Just how does smoking harm my health?

[This was posted to AS3 so long ago that the source has been lost. If
anyone knows where this is from, please e-mail
liorah@interport.net.]

   * Lung Cancer risk increases roughly 50 to 100 percent for each
cigarette you smoke per day;

   * Heart Disease risk increases roughly 100 percent for each pack of
cigarettes you smoke per day;

   * Switching to filter-tip cigarettes reduces the risk of Lung Cancer
roughly 20 percent, but does not affect the risk of Heart Disease;

   * Smokers spend 27 percent more time in the hospital and more
than twice as much time in intensive care units as nonsmokers;

   * Each cigarette costs the smoker 5 to 20 minutes of life;

   * A smoker is at twice the risk of dying before age 65 as a
non-smoker!!

Source & For More Info:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/support/stop-smoking/faq/part4/

posted by Amandha Dawn Vollmer @ 10:39 PM