IF YOU SMOKE TOBACCO IT CAN MAKE YOU: |
- Feel light headed
- Feel as though you are more relaxed
- Feel dizzy Feel sick and throw up
- Feel lacking in energy
- Become ill much more often
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IT CAN ALSO MAKE YOUR: |
- Fingers yellow
- Breath smells
- Teeth yellow
- Body and clothes smell
- Sense of taste worse
- Sense of smell worse
- Friends not want to be around you because you smel
- lSomeone you fancy not want to go near you as you smell and taste bad
- Muscles weaker
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DID YOU KNOW?
1 in 2 smokers die from a smoking related illness.
One person dies from a smoking related disease every 4 minutes in the UK. That’s 330 people a day. It’s the same as a Jumbo Jet crashing every day.
Many house fires are caused by carelessly discarded cigarettes.
Smoking 20 cigarettes a day for a year costs about £1500.
Smokers also get so used to smoking and when they smoke it makes it very difficult to not smoke.
When you smoke, nicotine reaches your brain in 7-10 seconds
It is illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone under age 18.
SO WHAT IS IT THEN?
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Tobacco comes from the dried leaves of the tobacco plant. It is found in cigarettes, cigars and other products.
Tobacco is usually smoked but can also be chewed.
Cigarette smoke contains over 4000 chemicals, including
arsenic, tar, ammonia hydrogen cyanide and nicotine.
Nicotine is a physically addictive drug and the one of the reasons people find it so difficult to give up smoking. |
THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT INFORMATION!
The benefits of giving up smoking START as soon as you STOP!
After 20 minutes:
- Blood pressure and pulse rate return to normal
- Circulation in hands and feet improve
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After 8 hours:
- Chances of a heart attack start to fall
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After 1 day:
- There’s no more carbon monoxide left in your body
- Lungs start to clear out mucus and other debris
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After 2 days:
- Sense of taste and smell improve
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After 3 months:
- Coughs and breathing problems get better
- Yellow tobacco stains on the teeth disappear
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After 18 months:
- Lungs have completed their task of clearing out tar and other poisons
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