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Cigarettes

~ Tobacco smoke causes yellow, stained teeth and bad breath.

~ Smoking cigarettes can cause hairy tongue.

~ Smoking cigarettes can cause coronary heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, and aortic aneurysms.

~ Smoking cigarettes causes a yellow-brown discoloration of the fingers and fingernails.

~ Smoking causes early aging of your lungs.

~ Cigarette smoking is also linked to high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

~ Smoking is linked to premature wrinkles.

~ Smokers may suffer from erectile dysfunction or menstrual problems and fertility problems.

Second-hand Smoke

~ Second-hand smoke increases your risk of heart disease and lung cancer.

~ Second-hand smoke is linked to asthma, bronchitis, and pneumonia in young children.

~ Second-hand smoke increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.

~ Acetaldehyde, a chemical in cigarettes, that causes cancer in humans and animals is transferred through second-hand smoke.

~ Second-hand smoke has been linked to cerebrovascular disease(stroke).

~ Dangerous chemicals can be transfered from second-hand smoke into a pregnant woman, then cross the placental barrier slowing the blood flow to the unborn baby.

  

Cigars

~ Cigar smoking causes cancer of the lung, oral cavity, larynx, esophagus, and pancreas.

~ Cigar smoking causes coronary heart disease, stroke, heart attack, and lung disease.

~ Cigar smoking makes your hair, clothes and breath smell bad.

~ Cigar smokers have a higher risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 

~ Cigars produce more secondhand smoke than cigarettes.

~ Cigars are not required to display health-warning labels, even though they cause cancer like cigarettes.

Chewing Tobacco

~ Smokeless tobacco does NOT mean harmless! 

~ Smokeless tobacco (chew) and cigarettes are equally addictive.

~ Smokeless tobacco is linked to receding gums.

~ Smokeless tobacco contains 28 cancer-causing agents.

~ Smokeless tobacco can cause increased heart rate, high blood pressure, irregular heart beats, brain damage, and heart attacks.

~ Smokeless tobacco can cause oral cancer (lips, tongue, floor of the mouth, roof of the mouth, cheecks and gums).