| Most people know that smoking causes lung caner. | | | | Yet, cigarettes are freely sold and openly smoked. |
| They are also aware their smoke is bad for the health | | | | Luckily for non-smokers, many public places are |
| of their family, friends, or anyone else who comes in | | | | becoming aware of the dangers of cigarette smoke |
| contact with the cigarette smoke. However, these | | | | and are declaring themselves to be smoke free. Even |
| people say they just can't stop smoking. It isn't easy. | | | | if you have smoked all of your life, it doesn't make |
| Along with all of the cancer causing ingredients of | | | | since to assume it's too late to quit now. Researchers |
| cigarette smoke, one of the main ingredients of | | | | have found that those who smoke increase their risk |
| cigarette smoke is highly addictive. If you want to quit | | | | of developing cancer with the number of years they |
| smoking but just can't seem to, here are some | | | | have smoked and the number of cigarettes they |
| statistics that might help you put down your smokes | | | | smoke each day. However, they have also found that |
| for good. Also included are some suggestions to help | | | | if any given smoker stops smoking, their risk of |
| you stop smoking. First, smoking is responsible for | | | | developing lung cancer will decreases. If you do want |
| eighty percent of lung cancer deaths in women while | | | | to stop smoking, smoking cessation products have |
| ninety percent of men who die of lung cancer were | | | | improved in the last several years. You can buy |
| smokers or were exposed to second hand smoke. | | | | nicotine patches or gum specially designed to help |
| Next time you light up around your children, think about | | | | ease you gradually off of smoking and make the |
| these statistics. You are not only damaging your health, | | | | transition easier. There is also a new prescription |
| you are also damaging their health. In a recent study | | | | smoking cessation medication that seems to be very |
| lead by Stephen S. Hecht, a professor at the | | | | promising. If you want to quit smoking and be healthier, |
| University of Missouri, the main cancer causing | | | | talk to your doctor about which options are best for |
| ingredient of cigarette smoke was found in the urine of | | | | you. It is well known that cigarettes are not good for |
| infants who lived with parents who smoked. Infants | | | | you. They are also not good for your family or those |
| who lived with non-smoking parents did not have this | | | | who inhale your smoke. While cigarettes are addictive, |
| chemical in their urine. This new information is in addition | | | | stopping smoking is worth the effort as it can cut your |
| to the knowledge that children of smokers are more | | | | risk of developing lung cancer. If you want to quit, there |
| prone to ear and lung infections than those of | | | | is help. A wide variety of over-the-counter and |
| non-smokers. Of the more than 4,500 chemicals that | | | | prescription medications are available to help you stop |
| make up cigarette smoke 60 of them are known to | | | | smoking. |
| be cancer causing. If a place of business was emitting | | | | For more information on cancer try visiting - a website |
| this many cancer causing agents, the business would | | | | that specializes in providing cancer related information |
| be shut down until it could clean up its emissions and | | | | and resources including information on lung cancer. |
| protect its workers from these dangerous chemicals. | | | | |