here, take one.
now keep smoking everyday.
and your lungs could look like this someday.
in the United States, an estimated 25.9 million men (23.9 percent) and 20.7 million women (18.1 percent) are smokers. These people are at higher risk of heart attack and stroke.
educate yourself:
Cigarette smoking during childhood and adolescence produces significant health problems among young people, including cough and phlegm production, an increase in the number and severity of respiratory illnesses, decreased physical fitness, an unfavorable lipid profile and potential retardation in the rate of lung growth and the level of maximum lung function. An estimated 440,000 Americans die each year from diseases caused by smoking.
- Each day, nearly 6,000 children under 18 years of age start smoking; of these, nearly 2,000 will become regular smokers. That is almost 800,000 annually.
- It is estimated that at least 4.5 million U.S. adolescents are cigarette smokers.
- Approximately 90 percent of smokers begin smoking before the age of 21.
- If current tobacco use patterns persist, an estimated 6.4 million children will die prematurely from a smoking-related disease.
- According to a 2001 national survey of high school students, the overall prevalence of current cigarette use was 28 percent.
- Nearly 20 percent of 12th graders, 12 percent of 10th graders and 5.5 percent of 8th graders smoke cigarettes daily.
that's a damn shame.
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sorry smokers, smoking is bad for you.
STOP SMOKINGGGGG !!!
