How are your lungs today (a friendly reminder to smokers perpetual thread)?

[rodsky]

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July 22, 2008: You still don't want to quit smoking today?


The Problem

Smoking is the single most preventable cause of death and disease. Cigarettes cause more deaths than cocaine, auto accidents, AIDS, alcohol, heroin, fire, suicide and homicide combined.

The costs to our society include over 400,000 lives lost every year in the U.S.-- over 1200 each day -- and $50 billion annually in lost productivity and increased health care costs. Worldwide, the toll exacted by tobacco use is two to three million deaths each year. Of the world's 1.2 billion smokers, the world health Organization estimates that 500 million of them will die because of smoking. This means that 9% of people now alive will die from cigarettes.

In most cases, the decision to smoke is not made by adults. Sixty percent of smokers start by the age of 14, and 90% of smokers are firmly addicted before reaching age 19. Stated another way, only one in ten smokers become addicted after the age of 19. So, almost no one starts smoking after age 19.

Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop alerted the nation that nicotine is as addictive as heroin or cocaine. Yet tobacco companies have been spending over $4 billion annually on advertising, or $15 annually for every man, woman, and child in the country.

Because of health problems associated with cigarette smoking, several nations have passed a ban on cigarette advertising. But in the US, the Congress legislated no significant change in this area in the past 30 years.

Anti-smoking websites & Master index of anti-tobacco links

-RODION

[rodsky]

(from CNN.COM October 1, 200

Cigarette packs to show graphic warnings

* Graphic images showing health effects of smoking appear on UK cigarette packs
* Warnings part of government initiative to deter people from picking up habit
* Smoking is biggest killer in England, causing 87,000 premature deaths annually

Cigarette packs to show graphic warnings - CNN.com

-RODION

[melissa_91]

owshit im scared..i wanna quit.. >_<

[aguel]

in good position

[domz79]

anybody heard about hypnotheraphy? I tried doing cold turkey, e-cigs, nicotine patch/gum.. I know psychological ra ang addiction pero I want to try other methods kutub sa mahimo, basin diay mo work hehe

[brian joshua]

13 years and still counting....

[jaegermeister08]

purag sud-an ang mga holagway lame kau tan awn

[sirfrancisdrake]

my lungs are good.

[gian_101]

sa xray scan lang, so far ok pa man daw ingon sa doc hehe, 8 years and counting. still trying to quit.

[medjz]

my shirt had this print:

Be Smart! Dont Smoke! Smoking kills!

hehhee bought years ago fr sarisari.