QUIT SMOKING : Another initiative in public interest..problem is every smoker knows these dreadful effects still they go on...
SMOKING IS A LETHAL POISON:
1. Every Cigarette takes 11 minutes off your life.
2. Smokers in their 40s have as many facial wrinkles as non-smokers in their 60s.
3. 114,000 people die every year from smoking. That’s 312 every day.
4. Smoking gives you yellow teeth, bad breath and hollow cheeks from repeated sucking on cigarettes.
5. Around half of all regular smokers will eventually be killed by their habit
6. Female smokers have a 30 percent lower fertility rate than non-smokers
7. Male smokers are 50 percent more likely to be impotent
8. Around 500 children start smoking everyday.
9. Men who smoke around their pregnant partner can significantly harm their unborn child
10. Cervical cancer rates are 4 times higher in smokers than non smokers.
SOME ADDITIONAL LETHAL EFFECTS:
1. Smoking causes lung cancer
2. This habit is highly addictive
3. Every cigarette contains 1-3 mg of “ poison- nicotine which causes the constriction of superficial vessel in the limbs
4. It raises blood pressure
5. It makes heart work harder
6. It severely affects digestive tract
7. It can cause nausea/vomiting
8. It acts as a stimulant on CNS.
TOBACCO SMOKE IS EXTREMELY COMPLEX IN MAKEUP WITH OVER 4000 COMPOUNDS IDENTIFIED IN ITS COMPOSITION. A TOTAL OF 16 KNOWN CARCINOGENS, 14 ALKALIS AND NUMEROUS OTHER COMPOUND WITH KNOWN BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY ARE INCLUDED IN 4000+ COMPOUNDS.
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