Smoking affects heart surgery outcome even a year after quitting
Today News : When your parents were young, people could buy cigarettes and smoke almost anywhere - even in hospitals! Ads for cigarettes were everywhere. Today we are more aware about how bad smoking is for our health. Smoking is restricted or banned in almost all public places and tobacco companies are no longer allowed to advertise on television, radio and in magazines.
Almost everyone knows that smoking causes cancer, emphysema and heart disease, it can shorten your life by 10 years or more, and that the habit can cost a smoker thousands of dollars a year. So how do people still shining? Answer, in a word, is addiction.
Once you start, it's hard to stop
Smoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains nicotine, which is highly addictive. As heroin or other addictive drugs, the body and mind quickly become so used to the nicotine in cigarettes that a person should have it just to feel normal.
People start smoking for different reasons. Some people think it looks cool. Others start because their family members or friends smoke. Statistics show that about 9 out of 10 tobacco users before they are 18 years of age. Most adults who started smoking in their teens never expected to become addicted. That's why people say it's just so much easier to not start smoking at all.
Today News : When your parents were young, people could buy cigarettes and smoke almost anywhere - even in hospitals! Ads for cigarettes were everywhere. Today we are more aware about how bad smoking is for our health. Smoking is restricted or banned in almost all public places and tobacco companies are no longer allowed to advertise on television, radio and in magazines.
Almost everyone knows that smoking causes cancer, emphysema and heart disease, it can shorten your life by 10 years or more, and that the habit can cost a smoker thousands of dollars a year. So how do people still shining? Answer, in a word, is addiction.
Once you start, it's hard to stop
Smoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains nicotine, which is highly addictive. As heroin or other addictive drugs, the body and mind quickly become so used to the nicotine in cigarettes that a person should have it just to feel normal.
People start smoking for different reasons. Some people think it looks cool. Others start because their family members or friends smoke. Statistics show that about 9 out of 10 tobacco users before they are 18 years of age. Most adults who started smoking in their teens never expected to become addicted. That's why people say it's just so much easier to not start smoking at all.
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