• This is what’s in a cigarette.

• The thing in a cigarette that turns your lungs black I tar. Yes! Tar that’s in the road.

Facts and figures!

• If you smoke more than 25 cigarettes a day are 25 times more likely to die from cancer and almost twice as likely to die from heart disease.

• Each cigarette on average takes 11 minutes off your life.

• Seven out of ten smokers say that they want to give up.

How does smoking affect your health?

• Although the negative health effects of cigarette smoking cannot be debated, it remains the single most common cause of preventable deaths.  Each year, over 430,000 people die as a result of a smoking related disease. Yet, over 50 million continue to smoke, including over 3 million teens.

Quitting

If you smoke, giving up is probably the greatest single step you can take to improve your health.

You can use nicotine replacement patches or chewing gum.