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• Smoking cigarettes or cigars can cause many health problems, including cancer, emphysema, and periodontal disease. It can also stain your teeth and hands, leave an unpleasant odor on your breath, hair, and clothing, and further complicate things by making you stand outside offices, restaurants, and bars to smoke.

• Fast Facts

  1. 17% of children in households with smokers are food insecure, compared with 8.7% of those in households without smokers.LA Times: Smoking may be linked to hunger (November 5, 2008)
  2. 87% of lung cancer deaths are caused by cigarette smoking
  3. $75 billion per year is spent on direct health care from tobacco use
  4. Women who smoke and take oral contraceptives are more prone to cardiovascular disease than other smokers
  5. 1973: First non-smoking sections on flights
  6. 1988: Congressionally mandated smoking ban on domestic flights of 2 hours or less
  7. 1998: California first state to ban smoking in bars

• Second Hand Smoke

  Smoking is not only harmful to the smoker, but also to those nearby. Second hand smoke has been shown in studies to be especially harmful to children. The EPA has classified second hand smoke as a known cause of cancer. Second hand smoke contains hundreds of carcinogenic or toxic chemicals. 3,400 lung cancer deaths and 46,000 heart disease deaths have been caused by second hand smoke in the United States each year.

• Help

  By quitting smoking, these and other hazards can be avoided. This page has links to information on quitting smoking. For further information, check out the page, How to quit smoking, which offers step-by-step guidelines.

  If you want to know how your body will change from the minute you stop, take a look at How to Know How Your Body Will Change If You Quit Smoking Now

• Smoking and Hunger

  A new study has suggested that people who live with or around smokers are more likely to suffer food insecurity and hunger. "Smokers have different dietary attitudes and behaviors than those of nonsmokers, and this may extend to feeding practices of their children as well."LA Times: Smoking may be linked to hunger (November 5, 2008)

• Disclaimer

  The content in this page is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Please contact your doctor about a smoking cessation program that is right for you.

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