Some kids think that smoking cigarettes is cool. They smoke because their parents, siblings and friends smoke. Girls may smoke in an effort to lose or control weight. Children who feel a need to rebel may also smoke. But smoking cigarettes is not fresh, is injurious to health. Share these cigarette facts with your children.
* Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals and 60 of them – including ammonia, carbon monoxide and tar – cause cancer.
* The nicotine in cigarettes is very addictive. Adolescents become addicted to cigarettes faster than adults.
* Flavored cigarettes, called bidis and kreteks, contain more nicotine, carbon monoxide and tar than regular cigarettes.
* Cigarette smoking causes breathing, hair and clothes smell. You become a walking stink bomb.
* Cigarettes worn tooth enamel, cause cavities (because the sugar in cigarettes), and make their gums recede. The leaves brown stains teeth brown snuff.
* Cigarette smoking dampens his sense of taste. The foods you eat, including much you want pizza, do not taste as good.
* Breathing is difficult when you smoke cigarettes. Even if you are trained runner be short of breath. Smoking and sports do not mix.
* Chronic smokers develop lung cancer, heart disease and stroke brain. Cigarettes can also cause cancer of the larynx, esophagus and mouth.
* Long-term Smoking shortens your life.
According to the Society American Cancer cigarettes harm nearly every organ in the body. Cigarettes are a gateway drug. Children who smoke cigarettes are more likely from alcohol, marijuana and cocaine. Talk to your children about the dangers of cigarettes. Tell them to say no to the consumption of snuff and yes to health.
Copyright 2009 by Harriet Hodgson
Quit Smoking Book – Stop Smoking Secrets Exposed
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