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What are the risks of smoking to smokers? Cigarette smoking is the greatest cause of preventable deaths in the US. On average, people who smoke die 5 to 10 years earlier than people who don't smoke. Smoking increases the risk of many health problems: lung cancer (Most people who have lung cancer are smokers or people who live with smokers.) other lung diseases, such as emphysema heart disease stroke ulcers hip, wrist, and spinal fractures cervical cancer bladder cancer.

Smoking can make sleep disorders worse. Smokers also tend to get colds and other respiratory infections more often. Smoking is especially harmful if you have: lung disease, such as asthma heart or blood vessel disease diabetes high blood pressure high cholesterol a family history of these problems. Smoking affects pregnant women and their unborn children. If you smoke while you are pregnant: You have a greater risk of losing your baby during pregnancy. Your baby may have a low birth weight. Your baby may have trouble breathing at birth. Your child may have more respiratory infections, ear infections, and asthma. The more cigarettes you smoke each day, the greater your risk of disease. Switching from cigarettes to a pipe or cigars may not lessen the risk of disease if you continue to inhale. Cigar and pipe smokers are at the same risk for cancers of the mouth, lip, larynx, and esophagus as cigarette smokers. Fortunately, if you stop smoking, many of these risks decrease. What are the risks of smoking to nonsmokers? Exposure to tobacco smoke is dangerous to children and other nonsmokers. The term secondhand smoke is used for smoke breathed by nonsmokers. It is a mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of a cigarette, pipe, or cigar and the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers. Being near someone who is smoking is called passive smoking. If you are regularly around someone who smokes at least a few cigarettes a day, your risks of medical problems are similar to the increased risks for smokers. A nonsmoker in a very smoky room for 1 hour with several smokers inhales as many bad chemicals as someone who has smoked 10 or more cigarettes. Recent research suggests possible links between mothers who smoke and attention-deficit disorder (ADHD) in their children. Exposure to cigarette smoke may be a factor in SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). And there is a greater chance that children of smokers will become smokers themselves. Developed by Phyllis G. Cooper, RN, MN, and McKesson Provider Technologies. Published by McKesson Provider Technologies.

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We've spent a lot of money trying to eradicate smoking with limited success, so it's about time we put our dollars ... (Calgary Sun)

Smoking was supposed to go the way of eight-track tapes and rotary phones. Like asbestos and lead paint, cigarettes were destined to join the list of health hazards tutted at by future generations, wise in ways we reckless fools were not.

Global Survey Highlights Need For Cancer Prevention Campaigns To Correct Misbeliefs (Medical News Today)

Many people hold mistaken beliefs about what causes cancer, tending to inflate the threat from environmental factors that have relatively little impact while minimizing the hazards of behaviours well established as cancer risk factors, according to the first global survey on the topic.

College students need to prevent fires (Livonia Observer)

Every year, college and university students experience a growing number of fire-related emergencies. There are several causes for these fires, but most are due to a general lack of knowledge about fire safety and prevention. Fire safety must be a part of their lives. College-age students may feel invincible at this age, but they aren't. Most of our children will take responsibility for their own ...

Big, bad tobacco (The Manila Times)

Finally, Republic Act No. 9211, or the Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003 is fully in effect. All forms of tobacco advertising in mass media are now prohibited. Did you notice?

Many In Fond du Lac Want To Go Smoke-Free (CBS 5 Green Bay)

Many citizens of Fond du Lac say they want their city to be Wisconsin’s next smoke-free community and they say they've got strong support to make it happen.

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