Reasons To Quit Using Tobacco
- Approximately 440,000 Americans die each year from tobacco-related diseases
- Smokers lose 7 minutes off of their lives everytime they smoke a cigarette
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Second-hand smoke will cause an estimated 53,000 deaths this year due to lung cancer,
heart disease and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
- Within days of quitting, a smoker's sense of taste and smell return to normal
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Although it's difficult to give up smoking, it can be done - about 3,500 Americans
successfully stop smoking every day
All statistics provided by the CDC
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