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How tobacco messes with your social life

Come on, isn’t it tough enough to get someone to like you without smoking? Why make things that much harder? See, 72% of teens don't want to date someone who smokes. So, if you do smoke, you're shrinking your pool of dating choices by a percentage even your math teacher wouldn’t believe. Improve your chances of getting that super-hot hottie (or anyone else) to dig you — stay off tobacco. You’ll thank us someday. Tobacco Kills Your Dating Life:

• Causes bad breath
• Stains teeth
• Makes you smell like smoke all the time
• Doubles the risk of losing teeth
• Causes wrinkles, even among young people
• Weakens the sense of smell and taste
• Stains fingers yellow-brown

Secondhand smoke, first-hand damage

Imagine someone came up to you, took a half-chewed bite of Baby Ruth bar out of their mouth, and handed it to you. Would you eat it? Well, that’s pretty much what happens with secondhand smoke. Think about it: besides having thousands of nasty chemicals in it, that smoke’s already been in and out of somebody else.

Dangers Of Secondhand Smoke (SHS)

• More than 4,000 chemicals are found in a single puff of smoke.
• 1,900 American babies die each year from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) caused by SHS.
• 3,000 Americans die each year from lung cancer caused by SHS.
• At least 50,000 Americans die each year from heart disease caused by SHS
• SHS can cause lung cancer in healthy nonsmokers. A nonsmoker who is married to a smoker has a 30% greater risk of developing lung cancer than a nonsmoker living with a nonsmoker.
• Exposure to SHS increases the risk of heart disease among non-smokers by as much as 60%.
• SHS causes thousands of new childhood asthma cases in the USA every year.
• Children whose parents smoke are more likely to suffer from pneumonia or bronchitis in the first two years of life than children who live in smoke-free households.
• SHS can affect nonsmokers by causing eye irritation, headaches, nausea, and dizziness.
• SHS is linked to 10,000 cases of low birth weight every year in the USA.
• Children of parents who smoke have up to 5 times the risk of dying of SIDS.

How To Protect Others From Secondhand Smoke

• Smoke outside, at least 25 feet from the house or building.
• Don’t smoke in the car with anyone inside.
• Don’t smoke when you’re pregnant or around someone who’s pregnant.
• Make a rule that smoking is not allowed inside your home.

What tobacco does to women

If you’re a girl, chica, woman, lady, and/or female, you need to know how tobacco affects you specifically. So, please read on. (Boys, guys, dudes, men, and/or males, it wouldn’t hurt for you to know this too — although, no, it won’t put you a whole lot closer to understanding the opposite sex. Sorry.)

In 1999, nearly 165,000 U.S. women died of smoking-related diseases. Since the Surgeon General’s Report on Women and Smoking was released in 1980, about 3,000,000 women in the United States have died prematurely of smoking-related diseases.

In 1987, lung cancer surpassed breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer death in women. Since 1950, lung cancer mortality rates for women have increased 600%. Women who smoke are at increased risk for cancers of the bladder, pancreas, kidney, liver, colon, and cervix.

Cigarette companies first began targeting women in the 1920s to recruit female smokers, equating smoking with freedom and emancipation.

Marketing cigarettes as “slims” or “thins” plays into social pressures on young women to control their weight, manage stress, and appear grown-up.

Smokeless sure doesn't mean harmless.

So, you think that chewing tobacco is safer for you than smoking. Well, that’s kind of like saying that standing in front of an oncoming train is safer than dancing in front of an oncoming train.

Chew/smokeless/spit tobacco:

• Is not a safe alternative to smoking.
• Can cause bad breath; decreased sense of taste; yellow teeth; and a black, hairy tongue.
• Can lead to oral cancer, gum disease, and nicotine addiction, and increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart attack.
• Can cause leukoplakia, a pre-cancerous disease of the mouth that causes white patches and lesions on the cheeks, gums and/or tongue.
• Increases the risk for cancer of the esophagus, pharynx, larynx, stomach, and pancreas.
• Can cause gum disease (gingivitis), which can lead to bone and tooth loss.
• Can wear away enamel on teeth and has been linked to dental cavities.
• Contains 28 proven carcinogens (cancer-causing substances), including formaldehyde, nickel, polonium-210, and nitrosamines.

If at first you don’t succeed, quit, quit again. Remember, it takes most smokers more than one quitting attempt to stay quit. So, read these tips, call the free and confidential Utah Tobacco Quit Line at 1.888.567.TRUTH, and keep at it.

Quit Tips

• Pick a quit day and stick with it.
• Quit with a friend who also wants to quit.
• Tell everyone you know that you’re quitting, so you have a support network that will motivate and remind you.
• Get away from people and places that tempt you to smoke.
• Throw away anything (cigarette packs, ash trays, lighters, chew cans, etc.) that reminds you of tobacco.
• Because cigarette smell can trigger the urge to smoke, do what you can to get the smoke smell out of your clothes, room, car, etc.
• Distract your mouth with gum, carrots, hard candy, toothpicks, or whatever.
• Drink lots of water and juices to help flush the nicotine out of your system. Stay away from coffee and caffeinated pop.
• When you feel the urge to smoke, try waiting 10 minutes for the urge to pass.
• Get plenty of exercise.
• Relax and keep your life as stress-free as possible. Keep doing the fun stuff you usually do to relieve stress.
• Try a yoga or meditation class.
• Fine yourself a certain amount of money each time you smoke and give it to your favorite charity.

Quitting Returns Your Body To Normal

• 20 minutes after quitting: Blood pressure drops to a level close to that before the last cigarette. Temperature of hands and feet increases to normal.
• 8 hours after quitting: Carbon monoxide level in the blood drops to normal.
• 4 hours after quitting: Chance of heart attack decreases.
• 2 weeks to 3 months after quitting: Circulation improves, lung function increases up to 30%.
• 1 to 9 months after quitting: Coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue, and shortness of breath decrease; cilia regain normal function in the lungs, increasing the ability to handle mucus, clean the lungs, and reduce infection.
• 1 year after quitting: Excess risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a smoker’s.
• 5 years after quitting: Stroke risk is reduced to that of a nonsmoker’s.
• 10 years after quitting: Lung cancer death rate is about half that of a continuing smoker’s; risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney, and pancreas decreases.
• 15 years after quitting: Risk of death returns to nearly the level of people who have never smoked.

Why Quit Smoking?

• Longer life by an average of 10 years.
• Fewer health complaints and better health status.
• Savings of about $1,500 a year for someone who smokes a pack a day.
• No more premature wrinkling of the skin, bad breath, gross-smelling clothes and hair, and yellow fingernails.
• Decreased risk of lung, mouth, voice box (larynx), bladder, kidney, pancreatic, and cervical cancer.
• Decreased risk of respiratory diseases such as emphysema, chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
• Reduced risk of stroke and heart disease. Smokers have twice the risk of dying from heart attacks as nonsmokers have.

Cigarettes suck the life right out of you

Long before tobacco cuts down the length of your life, it cuts down the quality of your life.

The fact is 1 out of every 3 teen smokers die early because of their smoking. Now, sure, you could be one of the lucky 2 out of 3 who end up living, but check out what you may have to deal with all those years.

Tobacco Kills Your Quality Of Life

Tobacco use can cause:

• Arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries)
• Bronchitis
• Cancer of the bladder, esophagus, kidney, larynx, lung, pancreas, etc.
• Cardiomyopathy (weak heart)
• Emphysema (the air sacs in the lungs are destroyed and the person can’t get enough air to breathe)
• Headaches
• Heart Attack
• Hypertension (high blood pressure)
• Infertility (difficulty having children)
• Oral Cancer (can cause loss of lips, tongue, cheek, and/or jaw)
• Osteoporosis (thinning of the bones, making them more easily broken)
• Ulcers
• Strokes (lack of blood flow to the brain, causing disability and/or death)

Tobacco Kills Your Life

• Tobacco kills 440,000 Americans every year — more than car accidents, AIDS, illegal drugs, alcohol, murders, suicides, and fires combined.
• Those who die from smoking would have lived about 10 years longer if they’d never started.
• Smokers lose about 7 minutes of their life for every cigarette they smoke.

Tobacco’s Not The Only Thing In Cigarettes

Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals. At least 40 of them cause cancer. And three of them are radioactive. Here are a few well know things found in cigarettes:

• Acetylene (welding)
• Ammonia (toilet cleaner)
• Arsenic (rat poison)
• Butane (lighter fluid)
• Cadmium (batteries)
• Carbon Monoxide (car exhaust
• DDT (pesticide)
• Formaldehyde (body tissue preservative)
• Hydrogen Cyanide (gas chamber poison)
• Methane (swamp and sewer gas)
• Methanol (rocket fuel, antifreeze)
• Nicotine (insecticide)
• Propane (fuel)
• Stearic Acid (candle wax)

What Tobacco Does To Health & Athletic Performance

• Damaged respiratory system, increased nicotine addiction, and increased risk of other drug use
• Limited performance and endurance during physical activity
• Reduced lung growth and level of maximum lung function
• Increased chance for coughs and respiratory illnesses
• Worse overall health and association with mental health problems such as depression
• Increased risk of heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer
• Heart rate increased by two to three beats per minute faster than nonsmokers
• Three times more likely than nonsmokers to have shortness of breath