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Why Smoking Is Bad For You
Title: Why Smoking Is Bad For You
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 715 | Pages: 3.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Why Smoking Is Bad For You
We weren't made for smoking and neither was our environment. By now, almost everyone knows that smoking and other tobacco use causes cancer. But did you know it's also the number one cause of heart disease and emphysema, too? In fact, smoking is the main cause of preventable death in Canada. Cigarette smoking also has a heavy impact on the world's natural environment. You can guess what cigarette smoke does to the air in a …showed first 75 words of 715 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 715 total…world-wide - a number the World Health Organization says will grow to 4 million by the year 2000.
Of the 3,000 American youth who start smoking every day,
-30 will be murdered,
-60 will die in traffic accidents,
-and 750 will be killed by a smoking related disease.
But the real bottom line is that more than half of young smokers today - 55 per cent of boys, and 51 per cent of girls - can count on dying from a tobacco-related disease... unless they quit.
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