10 reasons to quit smoking
1. Each cigarette you smoke takes about 11 minutes away from your life.
2. Smoking is the number one avoidable cause of death in the United States.
3. Cigarettes contain tar which has been proven to form cancer.
4. Teenage smokers develop asthma and lung cancer faster than an adult smoker.
5. If you smoke more than 25 cigarettes a day, you are 25 times more likely to die from cancer and heart disease.
6. Fifty diseases are caused by smoking. Twenty of them are proven to be fatal.
7. If you continue smoking, there is a one in two chance you will die from it.
8. Smoking related diseases cost the United States health service over $1 billion dollars yearly.
9. Nicotine is considered to be an insecticide used on plants to kill bugs.
10. As each year passes you will become more addicted and have extreme difficulty quitting.
