What Do You Get When You Smoke Or Chew Tobacco? / Educational Anti-Tobacco Video PSA
What Do You Get When You Smoke Or Chew Tobacco? / Video PSA. The hazards of the use of tobacco products, which result in significantly more deaths each year than illegal drugs and AIDS. Smoking damages nearly every organ in the human body, is linked to at least 15 different cancers, and accounts for some 30% of all cancer deaths. And it costs billions of dollars each year. Yet one in five Americans still light up. The 1982 United States Surgeon General's Report stated that "Cigarette smoking is the major single cause of cancer mortality in the United States." This statement is as true today as it was in 1982. Smoking is responsible for nearly 1 in 5 deaths in the United States. Because cigarette smoking and tobacco use are acquired behaviors -- activities that people choose to do -- smoking is the most preventable cause of premature death in our society. This document gives a brief overview of cigarette smoking: who smokes, how smoking affects health, what makes it so hard to quit, and what some of the many benefits of quitting are. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 44.5 million US adults were current smokers in 2006 (the most recent year for which numbers are available). This is 20.8% of all adults (23.9% of men, 18.0% of women) -- more than 1 out of 5 people. When broken down by race/ethnicity, the numbers were as follows: Whites 21.9%; African Americans 23.0%; Hispanics 15.2%; American Indians/Alaska Natives 32.4%; Asian Americans 10.4 ...Asthma — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment of this
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stop smoking now, its a horrible habbit and a serious addiction. we all know people who do, and its important that you pass along this video to people who smoke or are concidering it. some effects of smoking: yellow teeth gum disease loss of teeth early wrinkles induced stress increased risk of wound infection cancer heart disease aneurysms bronchitis emphysema stroke, makes pneumonia and asthma worse high risk of miss carrige premature birth stillbirth infant death causes low birth-weight in infants sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) cataracts bone thinning hip fractures peptic ulcers linked to macular degeneration[an eye disease that can cause blindness] secondhand smoke Based on data collected from 1995 to 1999, the CDC estimated that adult male smokers lost an average of 13.2 years of life and female smokers lost 14.5 years of life because of smoking. But not all of the health problems related to smoking result in deaths. Smoking generally affects a smoker's health, harming nearly every organ of the body, and causing many diseases. According to the CDC in 2000, about 8.6 million people had at least one chronic disease because they smoked or had smoked. Many of these people were suffering from more than one smoking-related condition. The diseases that occurred most often were chronic bronchitis, emphysema, heart attacks, strokes, and cancer. These diseases can steal away a person's quality of life long before death. Smoking-related illness can limit a person's ...Asthma — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment of this
chronic lung condition. Get all your questions answered now Learn how you can make a difference.
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