My
Name is Kosy Ugwumadu . I'm a Nigerian medical student at Liaoning Medical
University China. I love photography, fashion, art and medicine.
2
years ago, I found myself in China, a country with the largest number of
smokers. I was tempted to start but my love for my family and loved ones made
me avoid this Epidemic. YES! "Epidemic”, “WHO” tagged it an Epidemic.
Tobacco users need help to quit.
Studies show that few people understand the
specific health risks of tobacco use. For example, a 2009 survey in China
revealed that only 38% of smokers knew that smoking causes coronary heart
disease and only 27% knew that it causes stroke. Among smokers who are aware of
the dangers of tobacco, most want to quit.
Counselling and medication can more
than double the chance that a smoker who tries to quit will succeed.
BEFORE YOU LIGHT THAT CIGARETTE READ THE FOLLOWING
*Thousands of people stop smoking a day – by
dying from it.
*The best way to quit is to never start.
Smokers don’t grow old…they die young…
*Smoking is like cutting onions…it affects you
and the people beside you.
*Cigarettes are a classy way to commit
suicide.
*To
know more about LUNG cancer….keep SMOKING!!
*Long
life or cigarettes? You choose.
*If you’re thinking about smoking think again.
*Don’t try to stop smoking. Just stop smoking.
*If we lose the battle against tobacco, we
will lose the war against cancer.
*The more you smoke, the cigarette gets
shorter and your life gets shorter too.
12 QUICK FACTS ABOUT SMOKING
1.
Smoking causes 1 in every 5 deaths in the U.S. every year.
2.
Every cigarette you smoke reduces your expected life span by 11 minutes.
3.
A single cigarette contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to
cause cancer.
4. About 69% of smokers want to quit
completely.
5.
Exposure to Second-hand smoke causes nearly 50,000 deaths each year in the U.S.
alone.
6.
More than a third of the world's smokers are Chinese.
7.
Over 30% of cancer could be prevented by avoiding tobacco and alcohol, having a
healthy diet and physical activity.
8. 8.6 million people in the U.S. live with a
serious illness caused by smoking.
9. The Chinese smoking population is higher
than the entire population of the U.S.
10.
Smoking makes the risk of a heart attack 200% to 400% greater than that of non smokers.
11.
Cigar and pipe smoking is every bit as dangerous as cigarette smoking, and
possibly even more dangerous.
12.
Smoking makes breasts sag faster than normal by breaking down a protein in the
skin called elastin, which gives youthful skin its elastic appearance and
supports the breast.
So
if you are planning to start, be smart don't start.
If you are already smoking,
put it out before it puts you out.
Smoking
kills, QUIT NOW...Your life depends on it.
