Family should quit smoking.

Everett Koop, former surgeon general said “Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society”. Even though Everett Koop said that it’s easier to see almost all people smoking. Parents and children are including. Why family should stop smoking. Quit smoking it’s an obligation for all of us because of the some health problems caused by smoking. The three main problems that caused smoking are: smoking cause cancer, smoking reduces the length and quality of  life and smoking during pregnancy increase pregnancy complications. The solution of those problems is to quit smoking.

Smoking reduces the length and quality of life. Maybe you don’t notice all the physical effects of smoking immediately, but someone surely will be sorry one day.  Every year, four million people die of smoking-related diseases. This is an average of one death every eight seconds. According Tommy G. Thompson Secretary of health and human services: “During 1995-1999, smoking caused approximately 440,000 premature deaths in the United States annually, leading to 13.2 years of potential life lost for male smokers, and 14.5 years lost for female smokers”. Smoking is the leading cause of premature, preventable death in this country. Joshua Norman said: “The images are part of a new visual campaign announced by the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday to reduce tobacco use, the Associated Press reports, which is responsible for about 443,000 deaths per year.”  Because of that premature death, families are subject to suffer a lot of damage, like: parents without children or children without parents suffering economic and social.

 

The cancer is another reason why family people should stop smoking. Research has found Cigarette smoking is the number one risk factor for lung cancer. according centers for disease control and prevention “In the United States, cigarette smoking causes about 90% of lung cancers.”  Cigarette smoking increases the risk for many types of cancer almost anywhere in the body. Smoking causes cancer of the mouth, nose, throat, voice box (larynx), esophagus, bladder, kidney, pancreas, cervix, stomach, blood, and bone marrow (acute myeloid leukemia). The U.S. National Toxicology Program Said: “Research on Cancer has classified secondhand smoke as a known human carcinogen cancer-causing agent. Inhaling secondhand smoke causes lung cancer in nonsmoking adults (1, 3). Approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths occur each year among adult nonsmokers in the United States as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke. The U.S. Surgeon General estimates that living with a smoker increases a nonsmoker’s chances of

Developing lung cancer”.

Partnership for a tobacco-free Maine said and I paraphrase: Women’s smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of pregnancy complications.  Among of the complications are: premature delivery, low-birth-weight infants, stillbirth, and sudden infant death syndrome. Children born to mothers who smoke during pregnancy are more than three times as likely to die from the sudden infant death syndrome, according to a study published in this month’s edition of the Archives of Diseases of Childhood. Smoking before and during pregnancy are the single most preventable cause of illness and death among mothers and infants. Smoking while pregnant increases the risk of having a baby that is born prematurely by 30%.

 Smoking while pregnant can also lead to an astonishing number of children's health problems, including pneumonia and asthma. According to an AP medical news report, researchers have discovered a link between some cases of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder among U.S. children and exposure to tobacco smoke before birth. A new study found that women who smoked from some point in the month before conception through to the end of their first trimester were 60% more likely to have babies with a congenital heart defect.

In conclusion, if family people want to resolve the problem of smoking and cancer, which reduces the length and quality of their life and causes pregnancy complications, they should quit smoking.

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Partenership for a tobacco-free Maine. Pregnant women. Maine department of health and human services,2008

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