The document outlines 10 reasons why someone should quit smoking, beginning with the fact that President Obama successfully quit his 30-year smoking habit. It then discusses social pressures to quit due to public smoking bans, the health risks of smoking including increased risk of early death and disease, the dangers of secondhand smoke especially for loved ones and children, and the financial costs of smoking from increased healthcare costs and damage caused by cigarettes. The document aims to convince smokers that quitting is possible and provides resources to help them quit.

1. 10 Reasons Why You Should Quit
Smoking
By
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2. Introduction
• Do you know that February this year, US First
Lady, Michelle Obama officially confirmed that
President Obama had quit smoking cigarettes?
Michelle told reporters at a White House
luncheon to mark the first anniversary of her
“Let’s Move” childhood health initiative, “It’s
been a while and I’m very proud of him.” The
Washington Post quoted the First lady as saying,
“I haven’t poked and prodded. When somebody
is doing the right thing, you don’t mess with
them.”

3. 10 reasons why you should quit
smoking
• By this brave move, Obama joins the ranks of
the 1.3 million of his compatriots who are said
to dump the habit annually. If Obama can
drop his 30-year-old habit, you certainly can
and here are 10 reasons why you should quit
smoking now:

4. Reason No 1: You Can
• Yes, quit smoking because you can. No matter
what anybody says or feels about you, I am
telling you to quit smoking today because you
definitely can. Whether you believe it or not,
you have the innate ability to stop any habit
that is dragging you down, smoking inclusive.

5. Reason No 1 Continued
• Henry Ford said; “If you think you can do a
thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re
right.” Everyday, tell yourself, “I can and I will
quit smoking.” Say it with a lot of conviction.
Mean it from the bottom of my heart. You will
be surprised to see your affirmations coming
to pass in a very short while. All I am saying in
this first paragraph is: you can so you should
quit smoking.

6. Reason No 2: Social Pressure
• Governments all around the world are really
serious about their anti-smoking policies. As
we speak, smoking is being banned from more
and more places. These include
flights, shops, cinemas and restaurants. This is
all designed to make life more unbearable in
the hope that you will quit.

7. Reason No 2 Continued
• In May this year, China’s new indoor smoking ban
took effect. This is in accordance with a WHO-
backed global anti-tobacco treaty, even though
the country had already missed a Jan. 9, 2011,
deadline to enforce the ban.
• In April, this year, the Daily Mail reported that
half of the states in the U.S. have banned
smoking in restaurants, bars and the workplace
since 2000, and federal health officials have
predicted that cigarette smoking will be
forbidden in all U.S. states by 2020.

8. Reason No 2 Continued
• Whether this prediction will come to pass is
not the issue. The issue is, our Governments
have come to the realization that smoking is
deadly and are willing to do all within their
power to eradicate it, so, why don’t you quit
today?

9. Reason No 3: Digging An Early Grave
• In China, smoking is said to be behind the
deaths of at least 1 million people annually.
Government Statistics reveal it’s one of the
greatest health threats the country faces as
approximately 30% of adults in China smoke.
This amounts to roughly 300 million people
out of the huge Chinese population which
runs into over a billion.

10. Reason No 3 Continued
• In the UK, Cancer Research UK said,” today,
tobacco consumption is recognised as the UK’s
single greatest cause of preventable illness and
early death with around 107,000 people dying in
2007 from smoking related diseases including
cancers.”
• The situation is no different in the US where the
Center for Disease Control and Prevention singles
out tobacco as the single most preventable cause
of the 3Ds (disease, disability, and death) in the
United States.

11. Reason No 3 Continued
• Each year, 443,000 people are said to die prematurely
from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and
another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by
smoking. It’s amazing that despite these risks, the CDC
says “approximately 46.6 million U.S. adults smoke
cigarettes. Smokeless tobacco, cigars, and pipes also
have deadly consequences, including lung, larynx,
esophageal, and oral cancers.”
• Think about it, why will you allow a substance you
willingly inhale into your system to end your life
abruptly?

12. Reason No 4: Second Hand Smoking
• If you really love your loved ones like you
profess, you would have a re-think about
smoking. Secondhand smoke, also called
Tobacco Environmental Smoke(ETS), is the
smoke given off by a burning tobacco product
as well as the smoke exhaled by one who is
smoking. Experts say it can be more damaging
than direct smoking since most of the smoke
from second hand smoking isn’t filtered out.

13. Reason No 4 Continued
• According to the University of Minnesota (Division of
Periodontology),”between 70% and 90% of non-smokers in
the American population, children and adults, are regularly
exposed to secondhand smoke. It is estimated that only
15% of cigarette smoke gets inhaled by the smoker. The
remaining 85% lingers in the air for everyone to breathe. If
a person spends more than two hours in a room where
someone is smoking, the nonsmoker inhales the equivalent
of four cigarettes.” It continues by saying that “Secondhand
smoke is the third leading preventable cause of disability
and early death (after active smoking and alcohol) in the
United States. For every eight smokers who die from
smoking, one innocent bystander dies from secondhand
smoke.”

14. Reason No 4 Continued
• And now, wait for this; Secondhand smoke affects the
fetus! When pregnant women, who don’t smoke, co-
habit with partners who do, babies tend to have a low
birth weight. The message is loud and clear: pregnant
women shouldn’t smoke and they should avoid people
who do.
• Now, this is food for thought: if, for just a few minutes
of pleasure, you can hurt over 80% of the population of
your country, don’t you think your desire is a selfish
one? An Anonymous smoker once said;”If people don’t
love themselves enough to cut down on their
smoking, they may love someone else enough to do it.”

15. Reason No 5: It’s Damn Expensive
• Aside using your hard-earned money to pay for
cigarettes, you will also find you are spending
money in other ways like paying more for health
insurance. This is because, as a smoker, you are
more likely to suffer from cancer and other
ailments. Even when it comes to oral health, you
will encounter many problems as a smoker
because you will increase your chances of
contracting gum disease, oral cancers and mouth
sores. So it shouldn’t surprise you that healthy
people get cheaper health insurance.

16. 5 Other Reasons You Should Quit
Smoking
• Makes You and Your Things Stink, Your Food
Doesn’t Taste Well, Burn Holes in Clothes,
Chairs, Rug and Your Body, Male and Female
Infertility, Depression.
• There you have it, 10 reasons why you should
quit smoking today! Will you take the
challenge?

17. Useful Quit Smoking Resources
• The Effects of Smoking
• Stop Smoking Aids
• Stop Smoking Natural Remedies
• Motivation to Quit Smoking
• Stop Smoking Benefits

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