Quiting Tobacco

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In today’s world we find millions of people that are plagued with the addiction of cigarette smoking. To quit smoking cigarettes is easier said than done. Yet you still have a choice of a healthy life, or death from a tobacco related illness. It’s your choice, but quitting definitely gives you benefits from the hazards of the most death related drug. When giving up smoking you are not just giving up the health hazards, but hazards also giving taking away the hazard from other people by passing on second hand smoke.
In just one cigarette, there are about four thousand substances and more than fifty are known to cause cancer. Nicotine, one of the main substances in tobacco is extremely toxic and has been classified as the most addictive drug in existence. Two or three drops of pure nicotine, if taken all at once, would kill the average person. By now you probably know that smoking causes lung cancer, and has been proven medically. It also causes emphysema, cancers of the heart, bladder, pancreas, kidneys, larynx, esophagus, and oral cavities.
Every thirteen seconds someone in the world dies from a tobacco related illness. That is about eight people per minute. Each year smoking kills more people than aids, alcohol, drug abuse, car crashes, murders, suicides, and fires combined. Smoking kills about 3.5 million people worldwide and about 418,000 Americans each year. Do you want to be one of those people?
You may not know it but parents who smoke are influences on their children to smoke. Approximately eighty percent of adult smokers started smoking before the age of eighteen. Everyday nearly three thousand young people under the age of eighteen become regular smokers. Children who breathe second hand smoke are at greater risks for wheezing, coughing, earaches, and for illnesses such as asthma, tonsillitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, and meningitis.
In conclusion I found that smoking is not only the highest death related drug worldwide, ...