Smoking affects everyone around you, whether they live with you or not. Stop smoking and you will stop having this affect on the people around you. Smoking smells and it affects your health too. In recent years it has been found to be one of the primary causes for premature deaths from lung cancer, emphysema and even heart disease. If you don't care about yourself, at least think about your family!
Smoking related illnesses cause premature death all the time, families are affected by this, it is not only about the fact a smoker has taken their own life in their hands, they have also impacted on the lives of their children, family and friends.
In the bigger scheme of things, eight years may not seem like a great amount of time, but next time you light up, think about your children and the impact your smoking may have on them. Smoking has very far reaching consequences, just like many habits that are bad for you.
You will find that non-smokers are just as passionate about not smoking as smokers are about smoking, it is a contentious subject and there is much debate about it. The fact that smoking and the damage it causes have far reaching effect exists. Non smokers don't want to be second hand smokers and smokers don't want their rights to smoke to be infringed, and so it goes.
One of the most important factors to be considered however is the proof that smoking has a bad effect on unborn children. Even if you were a smoking mother and your child picked up a cigarette to light in emulation of you, you wouldn't allow it. You would take it away and tell them how bad it is for them. So why would you want to light up when you are carrying an unborn child?
There has been a great deal of research conducted and evidence collated that smoking is harmful to unborn children. Infant mortality rate are higher for both miscarriage and during the birth process. Children of smokers do not thrive as well and may not grow properly or, achieve normal developmental goals. They also very often grow up and become smokers themselves.
The impact of smoking affects many areas of life even the environment. As it takes one cigarette filter or stub five years to degrade. What happens to the all the stubs of the discarded cigarettes of smokers?
Worldwide millions of smokers consume as much as 6, 050, 000, 000, 000 cigarettes. If only 5% of the butts of these cigarettes was improperly discarded it would mean that the streets, parks, roads, and beaches of the world were exposed to 302, 500, 000, 000 butts every year which are going to take five years to degrade.
Smoking related illnesses cause premature death all the time, families are affected by this, it is not only about the fact a smoker has taken their own life in their hands, they have also impacted on the lives of their children, family and friends.
In the bigger scheme of things, eight years may not seem like a great amount of time, but next time you light up, think about your children and the impact your smoking may have on them. Smoking has very far reaching consequences, just like many habits that are bad for you.
You will find that non-smokers are just as passionate about not smoking as smokers are about smoking, it is a contentious subject and there is much debate about it. The fact that smoking and the damage it causes have far reaching effect exists. Non smokers don't want to be second hand smokers and smokers don't want their rights to smoke to be infringed, and so it goes.
One of the most important factors to be considered however is the proof that smoking has a bad effect on unborn children. Even if you were a smoking mother and your child picked up a cigarette to light in emulation of you, you wouldn't allow it. You would take it away and tell them how bad it is for them. So why would you want to light up when you are carrying an unborn child?
There has been a great deal of research conducted and evidence collated that smoking is harmful to unborn children. Infant mortality rate are higher for both miscarriage and during the birth process. Children of smokers do not thrive as well and may not grow properly or, achieve normal developmental goals. They also very often grow up and become smokers themselves.
The impact of smoking affects many areas of life even the environment. As it takes one cigarette filter or stub five years to degrade. What happens to the all the stubs of the discarded cigarettes of smokers?
Worldwide millions of smokers consume as much as 6, 050, 000, 000, 000 cigarettes. If only 5% of the butts of these cigarettes was improperly discarded it would mean that the streets, parks, roads, and beaches of the world were exposed to 302, 500, 000, 000 butts every year which are going to take five years to degrade.
About the Author:
April Kerr writes for End Smoking Tips which has details of best ways to quite smoking and stopping smoking tips.
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