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or what are the benfits for smoking?

The biggest thing is addiction and trying to fit in with others.

i am creating an idea of putting something on a billboard for a tobacco free living organization at school. help?

You can get a whole lot from the book extracts here: http://www.velvetgloveironfist.com/index.php?page_id=1

It has the benefits of being independent not only of the tobacco companies, but also independent of the anti-smoking lobby.

My boyfriend smokes, and uses those chew pouches to control his cravings when he can’t smoke. I’m going to buy him the patch, but I want to show him solid facts to kind of put fear in him and make him aware of how it is affecting him everywhere, not just his lungs.

Links would be awesome! Thank you guys for your help.

I’m a dental student, and we counsel every patient that walks in about tobacco (whether or not they smoke). There is so, so much out there that shows research about how awful it is, and I’ll try to find some. However, I think the best and more effective way is by finding some risky-looking things in the mouth. Almost 100% of smokers and chewers will develop some sort of oral lesion. A lot of them are benign, but some will become cancerous. I know that "scare tactics" aren’t a fair way to educate someone, but there’s something to be said for getting a point home when you can see evidence in your own body.

Here’s what to do: take a flashlight and shine it into his mouth (or have him look himself.) Have him stick his tongue out and look under it, and on either side (way in the back). Look at the skin on the inside of his cheeks, the roof of his mouth, and on the inner side of upper and lower lips. Look for any white spots, ulcers, or red spots. Here’s an idea of what to look for:

http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/NR/rdonlyres/69221BC0-9B0A-4032-9A4A-E762A7CECFEB/3201/HomogenousLeukoplakia.jpg

With people who chew, almost everyone will develop a corrugated white lesion called hyperkeratosis. Here’s an idea:

http://www.quittobacco.com/facts/mthcncr3.jpg

If you see ANYTHING abnormal, make sure he gets to his dentist to get it looked at.

Tell him that he is 5 times more likely to get periodontitis (severe gum disease), which has irreversible bone loss and can cause his teeth to get loose. Also, the massive amounts of bacteria associated with gum disease has been linked to heart disease and stroke as well.

If he ever has surgery, it will be difficult for him to heal. In fact, dentists will NOT place implants and most hospitals will reject regular surgery if the patient smokes. That means if he needs something done, he will simply be sent him. Period. They don’t mess around with it since smokers have such poor healing rates and sometimes even get worse after surgery because tobacco constricts blood vessels.

And his cancer risk is MUCH higher, of course.

Here are some good sites:

http://www.quittobacco.com/facts/effects.htm

http://www.quitsmoking.com/quitinfo.htm

http://www.tobaccofacts.org/tob_truth/index.html

http://quitsmoking.about.com/

what are some facts about smoking cigarettes and why is it harmful to people and teenagers.

There are so many things that smoking does to the body. The really sad fact is that it does not just hurt the smoker. It really does effect all persons around them.
A smoker has increased risk of respiratory and vascular complications. Smoking actually creates a tar substance in the lungs and decreases the persons capacity to take in oxygen. Also smokers veins and arteries are constricted from chemicals in the cigarettes. This puts them at a higher risk for blood clot causing stroke.
Mothers who smoke when they are pregnant usually have smaller babies. A nonsmokers umbilical cord (which supplies nourishment to the baby) is usually about wide as a roll of quarters and the smokers umbilical cord is about as thick as a pencil.
Children who grow up in the home of a smoker are at higher risk for developing asthma and/or allergies. They can develop lung cancer just as easily as the actual smoker can. Not to mention that growing up with parents who smoke puts them at higher risk for becoming smokers themselves.
I have a grandfather that smokes. He is eighty. The last several years he has been on oxygen. He wakes up at night because he can’t get his breath. He has a barrel chest because that is what your body does to try and help you get more oxygen. Your lungs try to get bigger so they can take in more oxygen because the cigarettes have destroyed portions of the lungs over the many years of smoking. Some people would say he has made it to eighty and that is a long time for a smoker to live. You have to keep in mind that most of his family lived into or close to their 100’s. They say that every cigarette takes five minutes off your life. There is no telling how long he could have lived if he had just been able to stop smoking.

iv been smoking rollies and its just such a hastle now- which is better for you- straights or baccy?

I smoke roll ups.

Both are killers though.