• Your loved ones, your friends, the payer of your health insurance policy, Health agencies, the government and so on.

• Lung cancer is the #1 killing cancer, 80-90% of lung cancer deaths can be contributed to smoking
• Smoking also contributes to other forms of cancer
• Believed to increase risk for pancreatic cancer
• Toxins in the blood from smoking contribute to the hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis)
• Smoking increases your risk for heart disease and stroke (risk decrease when you stop smoking)
• promotes insulin resistance (Syndrome X/Metabolic syndrome)
• increases risk of bleeding in the brain (study showed that those who stopped smoking were at no increased risk)
• Increased risk of blindness
• Increase occurance of ED among smokers
• Increases chance that children will smoke

Health.com 97 reasons to quit smoking

http://www.health.com/health/condition-article/0,,20210803,00.html

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1904624,00.html

• many campaigns have been targeted at young people
• over 599 additives can be added to cigarettes

http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/nicotineinhaler/a/cigingredients.htm

• Once the cigarette is lit and the ingredients are burned it can create 4000 chemicals. Isn’t this amazing.
• Some of the additives to cigarettes increase their addictive properties
• Some additives are added to make smoking more enjoyable.  That sounds alright, but it is really covering up how harsh smoking actually is on the body.

http://www.quit.org.au/browse.asp?ContainerID=1900