Smoking Effects

Have you ever heard anything so ridiculous? Everybody from the tobacco company, the court systems, the doctors to the cancer patient says smoking causes cancer, yet millions of dollars are still spent each and every year on cigarettes.

The cancer caused by smoking is most often not related to the tobacco at all. If anyone has ever seen the Truth Campaign commercials, the cigarette company adds things to the natural tobacco in the cigarette. It is these chemicals that cause the initial tobacco addiction and often the smoking related diseases. Imagine the same chemical used to embalm bodies being forced through your heart and eventually the entire body every time you take a drag.

Smoking Facts?

Smoking kills 5.4 million people every year. That number will grow to 6.5 million by 2015 and on to 8.3 million by 2030. In China alone, 2,000 people every day die from cigarette smoking. While all of these cases are not cancers, they are deaths related to smoking diseases.

Want to Talk About Cancer?

One cancer patient described her final days living with lung cancer in this way, “I feel like there (pause to breathe through a stoma) are knives (pause to breathe through a stoma) in my chest (cough…pause to breathe through stoma) every time (pause to breathe through a stoma) blink.” She died a few days later. She was a smoker for only 5 years. Cancer does not take 20, 30, or 40 years to affect some people. Cancer affects people in their teens, twenties and thirties at alarming rates. Quitting smoking is the only option to stop the chance of contracting cancer related to smoking.

Cancer is a death sentence for many smokers and that cancer is not just limited to the lungs. Cancers linked to smoking include voice box, mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, pancreas, cervix, kidney, and stomach.

Starting cessation smoking programs is one way to lift that death sentence of cancer smoking and start living  a healthy and longer life.