harmful effects of smoking

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•      specifics how smoking harms you
• Lung diseases caused by smoking include COPD, which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
• Cigarette smoking causes most cases of lung cancer. 
• If you have asthma, tobacco smoke can trigger an attack or make an attack worse.

Smoking causes more deaths each year than the following causes combined:4

• Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
• Illegal drug use
• Alcohol use
• Motor vehicle injuries
• Firearm-related incidents

statistics and graphs about smoking’s harmful effects.

Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States. Nearly 40 million US adults still smoke cigarettes, and about 4.7 million middle and high school students use at least one tobacco product, including e-cigarettes. Every day, more than 3,800 youth younger than 18 years smoke their first cigarette. Each year, nearly half a million Americans die prematurely of smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke. Another 16 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking. Each year, the United States spends nearly $170 billion on medical care to treat smoking-related disease in adults.

percentage of teens smoke?

Tobacco cigarettes: Nearly 90 percent of adult smokers began smoking before age 18 and 11 percent of high school seniors reported smoking in the last month. Smokeless tobacco: Use of smokeless tobacco among adolescents is less common than cigarette smoking.

Promote Non-Smoking?

• *  raise awareness
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• promise to never use tobacco products or smoke, ever. 
• well let me tell you something, it will be extremely hard to make a promise like this, only because of all the second hand, if your inhaling that crap you might as well smoke a cigarette. Now i swear i will never smoke but it will be hard with all the smokers in the world.
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