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Tobacco Products KILL 5 million people yearly worldwide!
500,000 die in the USA alone!
Smoking is the #1 Preventable cause of Death!
(Key Word - Preventable)
1st and 2nd Hand Smoke can KILL you or a loved one!
(Is it really worth it?)
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Smoking is a touchy subject that ruffles a few tail feathers including my families, but... it goes both ways!
So what's worse, my messages you'll find throughout this site or someone smoking IN YOUR FACE knowing how deadly 2nd Hand Smoke really is?
Bottom line is the smoker is poisoning the non-smoker!
Why is that acceptable?
My KwitSmowkin stickers are funny, maybe a bit nasty but they're saying what many are thinking!
- Smokers will lose around 12 - 14 years off their life due to tobacco products
- Could smoking cost you your job? Click here to read: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Insurance/InsureYourHealth/could-smoking-cost-you-a-job.aspx
- Over 8 million people in the U.S. suffer from illness due to tobacco products
- 50 to 67% of children under five years of age live in homes with at least one smoker
- Smoking also causes the skin to wrinkle and create the appearance of premature aging
- Smoking mothers inhale nicotine and carbon monoxide, this prevents the fetus from getting the nutrients and oxygen it needs to grow
- Smokers pay twice as much on their Life Insurance Premiums
- A smoker is less likely to get a good nights sleep due to nicotine withdrawal
- Cigarettes are mostly made up of tobacco
- Tobacco is a leafy plant that's main ingredient is Nicotine
- Nicotine is as addictive as heroin or cocaine
- Cancer-causing agents also known as carcinogens in tobacco smoke damage important genes in your body that control the growth of cells causing them to grow abnormally or to reproduce too rapidly
- Definition of Carcinogen - is any substance that can cause or aggravate cancer
- Chewing tobacco has over 3000 chemicals in it, 28 of them cause CANCER
- Tobacco products include - cigarettes, cigars, pipes and chewing tobacco
- Chewing tobacco is also known as: dipping tobacco, snuff and spit tobacco
- Smoking tobacco products greatly increase your likelihood of developing numerous fatal conditions
- Regulations governing cigarette smoking have been increasing
- Most US states have legislation controlling or restricting smoking tobacco products in all public areas thankfully that includes restaurants. Who wants to sit down and enjoy a steak or a delicious chocolate cake when the table next to you is blowing cigarette smoke your way? Urggghhh!
- Many businesses have non-smoking policies
- 20.8% of the U.S. adult population (45.3 million people) currently smoke tobacco products
- Smoking dominates your life (your mood swings - angry, edgy, agitated, depressed etc.)
- China is the biggest producer and consumer of cigarettes
KwitSmowkin wristband!
Colors represent:
Pink - healthy lungs
Black - polluted lungs
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Al Gore - worked on his family Tobacco farm, profited from it, is an ex-smoker (peer pressure, stress in college he said), his sister died of lung cancer in 1984 after smoking for 30 years. Al Gore said "until I draw my last breath, I will pour my heart and soul into the cause of protecting our children from the dangers of smoking!
Now the U.S. is thinking of doing the same thing. I sure hope it deters some people!
http://health.msn.com/health-topics/quit-smoking/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100244066>1=31020
The Pentagon is considering a ban on the sale and use of tobacco in the military. The VA spent 6 billion last year '08 on tobacco related illnesses.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/12/military.smoking.ban/index.html
Barb Tarbox's Story
Barb was diagnosed with lung cancer in September 2002 at the age of 41, after smoking since Grade 7. In a remarkably short amount of time, cancers spread to almost every part of her body, including her brain, bones and even resting on her aorta. While some people would lie and wait for death to arrive, Barb decided to share her tobacco story with Alberta's youth in the hopes of persuading them to quit - or not start in the first place. After a courageous fight
Barb passed away
May 18, 2003
Visit her site at:
http://www.aadac.com/79_601.asp
High court lets $50 million tobacco award stand!
The widow of a California man who died of lung cancer after smoking two packs of cigarettes a day for 40 years is entitled to $50 million in punitive damages, the largest such award ever upheld for an individual smoker, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/03/21/TOBACCO.TMP
Canadian provinces have joined the band wagon in suing the big tobacco companies as well!
Read more:
http://money.ca.msn.com/investing/news/breaking-news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=22076088
Click below to get a grip of what chewing tobacco does.
It's horrible!
http://www.jakeroth.com/chew.html
What's wrong with this
Photo? Hmmm......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco
http://www.cnn.com/US/9705/tobacco/history/
http://www.cigarettes-below-cost.com/history_of_cigarettes.html
(even the smokeless kind) Cancer - (Lung, Throat, Mouth, Tongue, Breast, Esophagus, Cervix, Voice Box, Kidney, Liver, Bladder, Pancreas, Bowel), Heart Attacks / Strokes, High Blood Pressure, Emphysema, Osteoporosis, Bronchitis, Asthma, Fertility (Male/Female), Miscarriage, Impotence, Premature Wrinkles, Tooth Decay & Loss Click to read more Click on photo to order
SOME Diseases & Illnesses Tobacco Products are responsible for:
Below is a list of a few Famous people now dead because of their dependence on tobacco products:
Patrick Swayze (Actor) Age 57 - Pancreatic Cancer 
- Roy Orbison (Singer) Age 52 - Heart Attack
- Errol Flynn (Actor) Age 50 - Heart Attack
- Babe Ruth (Baseball Player) Age 53 - Oral Cancer
- Michael Landon (Actor) Age 54 - Pancreas & Liver Cancer
- Ian Fleming (Creator of James Bond) Age 56 - Heart Attack
- Betty Grable (Actress 'Pin-Up Girl') Age 56 - Lung Cancer
- George Harrison (Musician 'The Beatles') Age 58 - Lung Cancer
- R.J. Reynolds (Founder of Tobacco Co.) Age 58 - Emphysema
We look at Patrick in this picture, he's cool, he's famous and he deteriorated right before our very eyes. He was still so young, too young to leave us all.
In his last interview with Barbara Walters Patrick Swayze said "Yes I believe my smoking could have had something to do with my Pancreatic Cancer". He was only 57! So Sad!
http://www.tobacco.org/resources/misc/losses.html
Below are just a few celebrities that have smoked or still do!
| Many of them have children! I wonder if they realize what they are exposing their children to on a daily basis and what example they are setting for their children as well as their adoring fans! Unfortunately most of their adoring fans think if it's KOOL for these guys to do it then why shouldn't they? All celebrities that are in the public eye need to set an example! All I'm saying is if you're going to smoke and you have a death wish...FINE! Just don't take others with you, walk that walk alone! Leave your family, friends and fans out of it. |
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 Brad Pitt |
 Britney Spears |
 Robert Pattinson |
 Catherine Zeta Jones She recently quit because she didn't want her children to start asking questions. |
 Avril Lavigne |
 Arnold Schwarzenegger |
 Eva Mendes |
 Katherine Heigl |
- 2004 US surgeon's general report said that smoking damages virtually every organ in your body
- Smoking kills more people then aids, drugs, alcohol, homicide, suicides, fire & car accidents combined
- Half a million die each year due to smoke related illnesses
- Three times more children die from 2nd hand smoke related SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) then from child abuse or homicide
- 2nd hand smoke previously known as ETS (environmental tobacco smoke) now more commonly known as just 'secondhand smoke' or 'involuntary secondhand smoke' is a mix of smoke from a burning cigarette and smoke exhaled by a smoker
- Cigarette smoke has over 4000 chemicals in it and over 40 of them cause CANCER!
- There is no 'safe level of exposure to 2nd hand smoke and there is no 'risk free level of exposure to 2nd hand smoke'
- Brief exposure 8 to 20 minutes can have immediate harmful effects on blood and blood vessels, increasing the risk of a heart attack and stroke, increased heart rate, less oxygen to the heart, constricted blood vessels that raise your blood pressure and makes your heart work even harder
- Non-smoker living with a smoker has a 30% chance of developing lung cancer and heart disease, breathing problems, increased coughing, wheezing, pneumonia, bronchitis and asthma
- Cigarettes, cigars & pipes are responsible for 80% of the lung cancers
- Cigarette smoking causes most of the lung cancer deaths - 90% in men and 80% in women
- Kids regularly exposed to ETS score lower on reading and math tests
- ETS triggers asthma, infants breathe faster therefore inhale more 2nd hand smoke
- ETS has 2 times more nicotine and tar & 5 times more carbon monoxide
A smoker once said to me
"If cigarettes don't kill me, something else will"!
True, but who wants to go before their time?
Amongst this list below, which one ingredient
temps you to EVER, EVER want to smoke?
Acetone - used in nail polish removers
Arsenic - used in rat poisons
Ammonia - a must have household cleaner
Benzene - a highly toxic chemical used for rubber cement, paint remover
Carbon monoxide - a poisonous gas that reduces the amount of oxygen in red blood cells
Formaldehyde - used to preserve the dead
Nicotine - a very addictive drug and extremely poisonous at high doses
Nicotine Addiction - the nicotine that's inhaled in tobacco smoke goes from your lungs into your bloodstream and then up into your brain. This takes about 7 to 10 seconds. Once it's in your brain it triggers a number of chemical reactions that then create for you a temporary feeling of pleasure. But this pleasure only lasts a few minutes. As the nicotine level drops in your blood, you start to feel agitated and edgy which is a sign of nicotine withdrawal. So what do you do then? You light up another cigarette till you've realized you're probably smoking a pack a day. Those that try to quit realize they are addicted to nicotine.
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Okay, now I'm just dying to have a cigarette!
The U.S. and Canada are suing tobacco companies due to deaths from tobacco products as well as health care costs associated with treating smoking related diseases and illnesses.
It's odd if not funny that they are doing this!
In The Gazette (Montreal newspaper) Eric Gagnon, external communications manager for Montreal based Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd., said "It's sheer hypocrisy on the part of governments. They legislate the industry, issue permits for us to legally produce and sell (tobacco products), collect millions of dollars in taxes each year - $700 million in Quebec alone- then sue us."
In November 1998, the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement was reached between the four largest United States tobacco companies and the attorneys-general of 46 states, settling their Medicaid lawsuits against the industry for recovery of their tobacco-related health care costs.
That deal will pay $245 billion YES BILLION! U.S. over 25 years.
They are saying tobacco companies have withheld information from consumers about the negative health effects of cigarettes. Yet for years it's been a public issue how harmful tobacco products are as well as how addictive.
Even though I'm against tobacco products, smokers made the choice to start smoking. They are also aware how dangerous it is as well as how addictive. Someone that starts smoking now with all this bad publicity takes it upon him/herself to be exposed to the many ailments tobacco products cause.
So DON'T start!
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_Tobacco
2nd largest tobacco company in the U.S. The founder of this huge company died of cancer of the pancreas in 1918 after a lifetime of chewing tobacco. The product that made him a wealthy man killed him. His grandson Patrick Reynolds a former pack-a-day smoker after seeing his father, oldest brother and other relatives die from cigarette-induced emphysema, heart disease and cancer quit smoking and became an advocate of a smoke free America.
Check out his sites: http://www.tobaccofree.org/ or http://www.anti-smoking.org/who.htm
Looking for a super informative site? Go to the tobaccofree.org one, it's awesome!
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