Health Risks

Smoking is one of the most significant contributing factors to low life expectancy, health inequalities and ill health, particularly cancer and coronary heart disease. Therefore, reducing smoking is a key improvement area within the overarching Health of the Population public service agreement area and strategic health authority local delivery plans, as well as within the NHS Operating Framework and in social care local area agreements

Statistics tell us that tobacco steals approximately seven precious lives every minute of every day of the year, world-wide. From heart disease and many forms of cancer to lung diseases that steal our ability to breathe, tobacco is a vicious killer in sheep’s clothing. An important step in the recovery process from nicotine addiction is to look closely at the damage smoking causes. As hard as that can be, it will help fuel your resolve to quit smoking, once and for all.

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Famous quotes

The only ’safer’ cigarette is your last one.
Duane Alan Hahn .................................
You own yourself, so if you want to do something that destroys yourself, go ahead. Just don’t harm others when you do.
Jim Goebel .................................
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
Confucius .................................
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer.
Clement Freud .................................
Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
King James I of England .................................
Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.
Brooke Shields .................................
I’ll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It’s addictive. And there’s a fantastic brand loyalty.
Warren Buffett .................................
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer.
Clement Freud .................................
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain
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