HEALTH

What are the health benefits of quitting smoking and tobacco use?

According to the CDC, quitting smoking and quitting tobacco has immediate and substantial health benefits. These can include a decreased risk of many cancers including cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus, larynx, and lungs and reducing the risk of coronary heart disease and stroke.

What are the health effects of smoking?

According to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), smoking causes chronic and often fatal diseases, such as lung cancer and other forms of cancer; heart disease; and respiratory diseases, including emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and pneumonia. Each year in the United States, over 440,000 people die as a result of cigarette smoking. This represents one in every five deaths in adults.

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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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