Facts about smoking
Cigarette, cigar, and pipe-smoking are so debilitating that the immediate cessation of the habit is always the first step f any program to improve one's health - even more important than vitamins, diet, or exercise.
International studies of millions of people by government, industry, universities, and private research institutions have determined that smoking can cause:
- Stained teeth
- Increased frequency of colds, particularly chest colds and bronchitis
- Buerger's disease (inflammation of blood vessel linings
- Shortness of breath
- Lung cancer, cancer of the lip, tongue, pharynx, larynx, and bladder
- High blood pressure
- Heart disease
- Artherosclerosis & arteriosclerosis (thickening and loss of elasticity of the blood vessels with lessened blood flow
- Tobacco angina (nicotine angina pectoris)
- Tobacco amblyopia
- Blood flow to the extremities is decreased (cold hands and feet). One puff lowers the temperature in the fingertips 1 to 3 degrees Fahrenheit in three minutes.