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SMOKING
Did you know that canadians smoke over a billion cigarettes every year and the nicotine in tobacco is one of the most addictive substances known.
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For teens, the short-term health consequences of smoking include cough and increased severity of illnesses like asthma, chest colds and bronchitis as well as addiction to nicotine. In adults, smoking causes heart disease and stroke. Early signs of these diseases can be found in adolescents who smoke.The younger people start smoking, the more likely they are to become addicted to nicotine. Most young people who start smoking ontinue to smoke throughout adulthood. Smoking reduces the rate of lung growth and it can effect maximum lung function. Smoking hurts young people's physical fitness in both performance and endurance . Smoking at an early age increases the risk of lung cancer.
Tobacco use does not just cause lung cancer, it also causes mouth, throat, pancreatic, bladder, kidney and cervix cancer as well as respitory and heart disease. Second hand smoke can cause lung cancer in non-smokers. Since 1999 the amount of teens from age 15-19 has dropped from 28% to 22.5%. In 2000 25% of teens were trying to quit smoking. Tabacco smoke kills 37,000 people in Canada each year that is more than the total of all murders, suicides, alcohol related deaths and car accidents in a year.
85% of all smokers start before their 19th birthday
The picture on the left is the lungs of a healthy adult and on the right is the lungs of an adult smoker
