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Do you want to quit smoking? if you know the dangers of smoking or if you know the contents of cigarettes?

if you know all the answers to the questions above, try to consider and compare with the joy of health. If you do not feel moved to avoid the bad habit of smoking.
Cigarettes can cause various diseases, among others:

• Tar is a sticky substance hydrocarbons and attached to the lungs.

• Nicotine is the addictive substance that affects the nerves and blood circulation. This substance is a carcinogen, and can trigger lung cancer is deadly.

• Carbon monoxide is a substance that binds hemoglobin in the blood, making blood can not bind oxygen. Read the rest of this entry »

In France , Around 66 000 people die each year from tobacco (over 10% of deaths) of which 27 000 per lung cancer (85% were caused by smoking) by the National League against Cancer. For a smoker in four, the average loss of life expectancy is twenty years and results in death before 65 years, according to a study by the Regional Health Observatory of Ile-de-France.

France has about 15 million smokers are young people between 20 and 25 who smoke the most (48% of the age by OFDT).

Compared to a non-smoker, the risk of cancer of a smoker is multiplied by:

• 10 for lung and pharynx
• 7 to the pharynx.
• for the mouth and esophagus
• 2 for the bladder.

The incidence of lung cancer is proportional to the number of cigarettes smoked per day. This frequency has already increased from 5 cigarettes per day. Indeed if one smokes 5 x 365 days for 15 to 20 years, this represents tens of thousands of cigarettes.

“Smoking is taboo, we all come to the end!”
According to the World Health Organization, tobacco is the second largest cause of death worldwide. Leading cause of preventable death, tobacco each year, causing five million deaths. This is the only legal product sold that kills when used exactly as the manufacturer provides.

It is well known that half of all smokers today, approximately 650 million people will eventually die from smoking. It is equally alarming that hundreds of thousands of people who have never smoked die each year from diseases caused by inhaling the smoke of others. Thus, smoking also means the health of his entourage, whom one meets every day at work, at home and in public places. Indeed, half of smokers consuming more than 15 cigarettes per day die of tobacco related disease and thousands of passive smokers pass away every year.