How can smoking kill you?

If you smoke, your smoking is killing you. Smoking does kill. Smoking is a proven cause of lung cancer, mouth cancer, throat cancer, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema and other diseases. Smoking increases your risk of having a heart attack or a stroke. Smoking kills. Smoking can even kill those you love. It’s been proven that secondhand smoke is just as dangerous as smoking. How can secondhand smoke kill someone who doesn’t smoke? Well, they are breathing the same smoke that the person smoking breathes, plus the toxic smoke exhaled from the smoker’s lungs. That double dose of toxic smoke can cause the damage to a non smoker that smoke causes to a smoker. Smoke inhalation, just like when breathe in smoke during a fire, is noxious and wreaks havoc on your lungs. Smoking doesn’t just kill people, smoking can kill your pets as well. Secondhand smoke can severely damage your pets health. Think of it this way, if it’s not good for you, it’s not good for your pet.

But I don’t smoke that much, can smoking still hurt me?

Yes, it can. Many people say they are social smokers and only smoke when out with other people. Even that small amount of smoking and being around people who are smoking can kill you. Why does that little amount of smoke hurt you? Because cigarettes smoke is toxic. It doesn’t matter if it’s only a little bit. It still damages your body every time you breath it, that’s how smoking can kill you.

Smoking cigarettes also kills brain cells

Even if you don’t develop serious health related problems from smoking, your brain suffers. Lack of oxygen to your brain caused by smoking will cause brain cells to die. When your brain cells die you have trouble concentrating, trouble remembering things, and other problems caused by decreased brain function.

Where can I find information about how smoking kills people?

There are some great websites where you can learn the facts about how smoking kills people. If you have kids and are trying to show your kids why they shouldn’t start smoking there are websites about smoking that are made specifically for kids and teens. These websites will speak to them on their level and give them good information in a way they can easily understand. We can show you were those sites are. They have great resources including film clips and well-produced commercials that show how smoking kills. While smoking doesn’t kill all smokers, it kills most of them.