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Smoking, Smoking and More Smoking

Cigarette smoking's horrible truths

Smoking Consequences

Chemical Dependency

·	Nicotine addiction
·	Getting hooked as teens
·	Smoking a mental illness and disease
·	A new best friend
·	Marriage to a chemical
·	Invention of smoking rationalizations

Tars and Toxins

·	Smoke's 81 cancer causing chemicals
·	Our self mutilation
·	Puffing on polonium
·	The smoker's body

Diminished Abilities

·	5.8 fewer teeth than non-smokers
·	Diminished ability to run
·	Restless sleep
·	6 more sick days per year
·	Smoking bans at parks/beaches
·	The forgotten you

How Smoking Destroys the Body

·	Circulatory disease
·	Lung destruction
·	Heart disease
·	Artery destruction
·	Secondhand smoke
·	Increased risk of death

Other Smoking Consequences

·	Fetal injury or death
·	Horrible example for children & teens
·	Pet cancer
·	Risk of starting fires
·	Secondhand smoke injury
·	Higher tuberculosis smoker death rate
·	Increased health insurance costs
·	Fewer employment opportunities
·	Becoming a litter bug

Smoking Related Diseases

Smoked chemicals touch every cell

·	Abdominal aortic aneurysms
·	Acne
·	Acute myeloid leukemia
·	Artery damage
·	Bladder cancer
·	Blindness
·	Brain damage
·	Breast cancer
·	Bronchitis
·	Buerger's disease
·	Cervical cancer
·	Colorectal polyps
·	COPD
·	Degenerative disc disease
·	Depression
·	Dementia
·	Diabetes
·	Emphysema
·	Fetal brain damage
·	Hearing loss
·	Heart disease
·	Hodgkin's disease
·	Impotence
·	Kidney disease
·	Lung cancer - females
·	Lung cancer - both genders
·	Memory loss
·	Oral cancer
·	Rectal cancer
·	Small cell lung cancer
·	Stomach cancer
·	Stroke
·	Sudden infant death syndrome
·	Throat cancer
·	Vascular or circulatory disease
·	Voice box cancer

Smoking Victims

1 in 4 smokers die during middle age

·	Bryan Lee Curtis - age 34
·	Noni Glykos - age 33
·	Deborah Scott - age 39
·	Kim Genovy - age 47
·	Chris Punch Andrews - age 43
·	Barb Tarbox - age 41
·	Melinda Brockett - age 39
·	Carrie Hamilton - age 38
·	Susan DeWitt - age 43
·	Chris Dinkmeyer - age 41
·	Fred Goldman - age 43
·	Debbie Williams - age 43
·	Quentin McGowan - age 23
·	Char - age 33
·	You - age ?

20 living disease victims for each death

·	Brandon Charmichael - age 23
·	Randy - age 41
·	Janice - age 51

Free Smoking Solutions

Unplanned attempts twice as successful

·	The Law of Addiction
·	Basic quitting tips
·	Detailed quitting tips
·	The first 72 hours
·	100 quitting lessons
·	Ebook: "Never Take Another Puff"
·	Ebook: "Freedom from Nicotine"
·	Audio quitting lessons
·	Daily quitting lesson guide
·	64 video quitting lessons
·	Quitting meters and counters
·	Free online stop smoking support
·	Index to key quit smoking topics
·	Motivation, education & support guide

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Imagine being 38 years and told your cancer is incurable.
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We each roll the dice when we fail to quit smoking cigarettes and 1 in 4 of us are dying in middle-age. Imagine being a 33 year-old Camel smoker with a new baby, yet dead six months before its first birthday.

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