Does Smoking Scare you?

Does smoking scare you? Well it certainly should! Know this… It will eventually kill you? If that doesn’t scare you, then you are probably a smoker and your brain is playing tricks on you by suppressing common sense. If you need a brief reminder on all the scary stuff that smoking can do keep reading this page.

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Government health campaigns in Australia use television images of fatty deposits being squeezed from an aorta to convince people to stop smoking.

Neck Tumor

Lung Cancer X-Ray

 

 

Buergers Disease is Nasty!

You could end up just like him. Are you? Not you…. right? Well unfortunately it very easily could be you if you don’t stop smoking. This guy didn’t think it could happen to him, but by the time his toes started to tingle because of the lack of circulation caused by this disease, he was already addicted and too stubborn to quit smoking.

This is pure insanity! He had is 4 limbs amputated because of tobacco smoking and he still puffing away. What’s going through your head right now? Are you thinking “Right on Brother!”? I doubt it. You are probably thinking how pathetic he is and you would never let it go that far. Hold on to that thought for a second….

Right now you are somewhere along the line between living a healthy life and loosing your 4 limbs or some other nasty slow death due to tobacco smoking. If you are not going to let it go this far then… when are you going to quit smoking? How about now? Not a good time? OK… How about now?

 

 

 

 

 

When is a Good Time to Quit Smoking?

When is a good time for you to quit smoking? Would that be sometime before doctors drill a hole in your throat so you can breathe? A week before it happens? A month? A year? Why not now?

Right now you are somewhere along the line between living a healthy life and breathing through a hole in your throat (or some other nasty slow death due to tobacco smoking). If you are not going to let it go this far then… when are you going to quit smoking? How about now? Not a good time? OK… How about now?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Father’s Day… R.I.P.

Do you have kids? Lets leave the effects of second hand smoke for another slide because you are such a good parent that you have always smoked outside and away from your children. Now your dead! Should your children thank you? I guess it’s like saying “Thank you for not killing me as you were killing yourself Dad.”

People who die from tobacco smoking or other tobacco related are really poisoning themselves. You could call it suicide.

Right now you are somewhere along the line between living a healthy life and spending Father’s Day in a pine box due to tobacco smoking. If you are not going to let it go this far then… when are you going to quit smoking? How about now? Not a good time? OK… How about now?

 

 

 

 

 

Someone has 8 Seconds to Live…

Every year, over 440,000 people die of smoking and tobacco related diseases. That’s an alarming 1 person that dies from a preventable cause every 8 seconds.

During any typical week, smoking and tobacco kill more people by Thursday then the number of people that died on 9-11. With so many people getting killed by tobacco every year… Why is not the UN enforcing sanctions against the tobacco companies? Why is not the President declaring war on tobacco and sending in troops to take down the tobacco regime? Why is Homeland Security ignoring the hundreds of thousands of dead bodies piling up in our homeland killed by the poisons in tobacco smoke? Smells like a conspiracy to me…. Someone call Michael Moore!

Don’t wait for the government to do what is right. Protect yourself from the terrorist enemy attacking you in your own home by quitting smoking right now.

Quitting smoking is the best thing you could do for yourself, your health, and your children. If you’ve failed to quit before, try to quit again. Keep on trying to quit smoking until you succeed. You can quit this horrible habit… and you will quit!

 

 

 

Slow Death by Smoking

The thing about smoking is that it doesn’t kill you quickly. Smoking tobacco can cause a variety of cancers including the one shown on the left. Unfortunately many people do not realize that this stranger with the strange neck tumor could be someone they love. I’m sure that his loved ones who may have been smokers before he got cancer, quit after they saw him die a very painful and slow death.

Don’t wait until it is too late for you or a loved one to quit smoking. Learn from this picture and give meaning to his death by quitting smoking or stopping a loved one from smoking.

 

 

 

 

It says Impotent not Important!

Isn’t it ironic how many of us started to smoke to feel important or to be cool? Guys! How cool is a limp penis?

If you can’t read the small print to the left, let me spell it out for you. “Cigarettes may cause sexual impotence due to the decrease blood flow to the penis. This can prevent you from having an erection.”

Forget dying from cigarette smoking…. what’s the point of living if you can’t do it?

 

 

 

 

 

Smoking While Pregnant… Very Sad!

If this was a newspaper article from the 60’s or even the 70’s it would still be sad but you could write it off as ignorance. Notice the date at the top left corner of the article. For any expecting mother to be smoking through their pregnancy these days is blatant stupidity!

If you are an expectant mother or if you know someone who is and they are still smoking…. I IMPLORE YOU! Please stop smoking or reason with the woman you know who is still smoking and do whatever is in your power to protect the unborn child from the effects of tobacco smoke.

You know what can happen to the unborn child. Don’t play Russian roulette by smoking while pregnant. The risk is TOO high!

You know you want to quit. So do it now! If not for yourself then for the sake of your children’s health.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Smoking… Monkey See… Monkey DO!

You are older and wiser now. You are wise enough that you wouldn’t go out and buy your 8 year old a carton of cigarettes. You probably are wise enough to want to quit and tell your children that starting to smoke cigarettes was one of the biggest mistakes you have ever made and that they should never start to smoke.

Unfortunately, smoking in front of your children exponentially increases the chances that they will become a smoker later on in life. Do as I say and not as I do doesn’t work with children. Monkey see… Monkey do… however is very powerful.

You know you want to quit. So do it now! If not for yourself then for the sake of your children’s health.

 

 

 

Which is worse… Cigarettes or Heroin?

The first answer that you probably thought of was that heroin is worse than smoking cigarettes. Sorry to have to break it to you but cigarette smoking kills way more people every year. However unlike the other, cigarette smoking is legal, and taxed by the government in most places.

There are studies that say that cigarette smoking is even more addictive than heroin.

Never in the history of this planet has there been a substance that has killed more people than smoking cigarettes.

 

 

 

 

Bryan’s Story - Learn from it!

Bryan Lee Curtis 33yrs old

Bryan Jr. 2yrs old

March 29th

2 MONTHS LATER…

Bryan with his wife Bobbie and son Ryan Jr.

June 3rd, the day he died from smoking.

Notice the picture he is holding

I don’t care how tough you are… If this story or the 2 pictures on the left don’t bring a tear to your eye or at least give you a huge lump in your throat, you’re not human.

Bryan Lee Curtis is proof that it can happen to you. Bryan started smoking when he was 13 and was dead before he was 35. Plenty of time for that, he figured. Older people got cancer. Not people in their 30s, not people who worked in construction, as a roofer, as a mechanic.

Just 2 months before his death, Bryan was a muscular, healthy and good looking 33 year old father who thought about quitting smoking cigarettes but never did anything about it. Before he got sick, Bryan was more worried about his mother, 57, who had smoked since she was 25, than himself. He would say, “Mom, don’t worry about me. Worry about yourself. I’m healthy,” his mom Louise Curtis remembers. “You think this would happen later, when you’re 60 or 70 years old, not when you’re his age.” she adds.

Bryan knew, a few days after he was diagnosed that he wanted to try to save at least one kid from the same fate. He sat down and talked with Bryan Jr. and his 9-year-old daughter, Amber, who already had been caught once with a cigarette. But he wanted to do more. Somehow, he had to get his story out.

When Bryan was too weak to leave the house anymore, his children would come up to his room and stare at him because they thought he looked so strange. His mother him telling his children “This is what happens to you when you smoke.”.

Parents, get your children, and show them these pictures and tell them this story as it was Bryan’s dying wish and mission to let young people know that it can happen to them too.

Look at these pictures and keep reading the story until it sinks in. The chances that you will die from smoking cigarettes are too high to bet against. Quit smoking now before it is too late for you too. You don’t have a lot of time left. Stop putting it off.

 

 

Noni’s Story - It Can Happen to You!

March 16th, 1999

Noni Glykos with her 3 month old son.

Noni was diagnosed with lung cancer

just one month ago.

3 MONTHS LATER…

Noni falls into a coma and dies on June 24th, 1999

Noni Glykos’ lost battle with the lung cancer that was caused by smoking cigarettes is another tragic story that could have been prevented. Noni was a beautiful glowing new mother who at 33 should have been in the prime of her life but alas it was cut short because of smoking cigarettes.

It can happen to you and your loved ones just as it did to Noni. It can happen so fast that you will barely have time to say goodbye. Smokers who think they can quit tomorrow or next month can easily get caught by the grim and voracious cancers that can appear out of nowhere and take your life away before you know it.

Noni’s son was just 6 months old when his mother died. For him life will never be fair. He will never understand why such an evil as tobacco smoke could have been allowed to take his mother’s life. He will never know all of the things that his mother could have taught him. He will never remember her face except from pictures.

Noni had many dreams. She had many dreams that will never come true because of cigarette smoking. Her dream of her and her husband building their own home died with her. Her dream of having at least 2 children died as well.

Noni started to smoke at the age of 14 and died at the young age of 33 Years, 3 Months, 11 Days. How long have you been smoking? How long do you think you can continue to smoke cigarettes and avoid getting lung cancer or one of many other terrible disease caused by tobacco products?

Look at these pictures and keep reading the story until it sinks in. The chances that you will die from smoking cigarettes are extremely high. Quit smoking now before it is too late for you too. You don’t have a lot of time left. Stop putting it off and do it now.

No Smokes for Kids!

Debi started smoking at the age of 13. Now she must breathe through a hole in her throat. The reality of the dangers of cigarette smoking have hit home for Debi. What will it take for them to hit home for you? Hopefully it is before you are having to gasp for every breath you take through a hole in your neck.

If get throat cancer, you may have to undergo surgery to create a hole in your neck called a tracheostomy, which is to help you breathe more easily. If the muscles you need for swallowing have been removed, you’ll also need surgery to create a hole in your abdomen called a gastrostomy so that you can receive food directly into your stomach through a feeding tube.

Debi doesn’t think that smoking is so cool anymore. She really wishes she hadn’t started at 13. She also wishes that you never start smoking and if already smoke cigarettes, Debi wishes with all her heart that you quit smoking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Which Are Your Lungs?

On the left is a lung from an otherwise healthy non-smoker. On the right of that is a lung from a cigarette smoker who died of lung cancer after years of poisoning himself with the toxic chemicals found in tobacco smoke.

If you have been smoking for at least 2 years which picture do you think best resembles your lungs? Barring the tumor of course, your lungs very closely resemble the one on the right. Many people think that unless they have been smoking for 40 years, their lungs are still a pretty pink and that they haven’t done much damage. The truth is that damage begins with the first cigarette you smoke and will continue to increase until you quit smoking.

Don’t wait until it is too late and cancer moves in to stay.

 

 

 

Your Baby’s Lungs

“You are 2 months old. Your lungs are this tiny. You spend day after day around second-hand smoke. You breathe it in. You cough. You hack. You wheeze. Your lungs clog up with sticky fluid and thick mucus. You get bronchitis or pneumonia.

If you have asthma, it will likely get worse. All together, up to 300,000 babies end up getting sick every year; 15,000 of them could end up hospitalized, simply from being exposed to cigarette smoke.”

- A message from the babies of the world. -

Children don’t have a voice of their own. It has always been up to the parents and guardians to make the right decision for their children. Don’t make the wrong choice when it comes to your child’s health. Keep cigarette smoke away from your children. Smoke travels and lingers throughout your home. Smoke outside or better yet, quit smoking cigarettes altogether. You child will thank you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No More Killing

Lets compare the actual real numbers and have a look to see if dying from tobacco consumption could be an actual problem.

Let’s add up the total number of people who died from the flowing causes of death in the United States alone and in the year 1998. The number of people who died from AIDS, Alzheimers, Auto Accidents, Bike Accidents, Breast Cancer, Diabetes, Drowning, Drug Reactions, Falls, Fires & Burns, Gun Accidents, Hepatitis, Illegal Drugs, Leukemia, Lightening, Liver Disease, Meningitis, Murder, Pedestrians, Poisoning, Prostate Cancer, Snake Bites, Suffocation, Suicide, Syphilis and Ulcers is:

381,420

The number people who died just from tobacco in the US in 1998 is:

418,690

You do the math. All those so-called common causes of death don’t even add up to the number of people who die from smoking or consume tobacco in other ways. Don’t wait until it is too late and you die. You know you want to quit. So do it now!

 

 

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