For Your Information
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).