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Socially smoking is not that safe
You're putting yourself at risk of addiction and harming your already good health by both actively and pasively smoking in such a pleasurable environment that further reinforces this behaviour.
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Even a few make a huge impact
Smoking just one cigarette a day results in a risk of coronary heart disease that is halfway between that of a heavy smoker and a non-smoker.
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Worsens your Dental Health and appearance
Besides teeth discoloration, smoking can cause periodontal disease (its early stage is known as gingivitis) which causes bad breath and tooth loss. It can also cause Smoker's melanosis which is seen with the naked eye as a brown to black pigmentation of the oral tissue
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Building a family gets harder
Smoking can make it harder for a woman to become pregnant. It can also affect her baby’s health before and after birth. It can also affect men’s sperm, which can reduce fertility and also increase risks for birth defects and miscarriage.
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It's not just the lungs.
Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body and affects a person’s overall health.
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There is not much of a difference between Cigars and Cigarretes
Cigar smoking carries many of the same health risks as cigarette smoking.
Tabacco is the world's single greatest preventable cause of death.
Quitting smoking has health benefits at any age, no matter how long or how much you have smoked.
Within minutes
Heart rate drops.
Hours after
Nicotine level in the blood drops to zero.
The first days
Your sense of smell and taste improves.
About a week after
Carbon monoxide level in the blood drops to level of someone who does not smoke.
Starting at the first month
The large number of nicotine receptors in your brain will return to normal levels and coughing and shortness of breath decrease.
After three months
Your blood circulation improves. Making all physical activity much easier (including sex) and Smoker's Melanosis lesions may have healed or start healing.
A year
Risk of heart attack starts to drop sharply.
Three years
A person’s risk for coronary heart disease decreases by half and there should be no signs of Smoker's Melanosis.
Five years
Added risk of cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus and voice box drops by half.
Ten years
Your risk of dying from lung cancer is about half that of a person who is still smoking.
Twenty years
Risk of cancers of the mouth, throat, and voice box drops to close to that of someone who does not smoke. Risk of pancreatic cancer drops to close to that of someone who does not smoke