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Smoking is like a slow death. It leads people to develop health problems like heart disease, stroke, emphysema, and many types of cancer including lung, stomach, and bladder cancer. Many of these diseases limit a person's ability to be normally active and be fatal.
1. Smoking damages, one’s entire cardiovascular system. For instance, Nicotine causes blood vessels to tighten, which restricts the flow of blood. Over time, the ongoing narrowing, along with damage to the blood vessels, causes peripheral artery disease.			2. Smoking turns one’s pearly white teeth into yellow or brown teeth. In addition, it causes bones to become weak and brittle.
3. Smoking can inflame and irritate the lungs. It destroys the lung tissues which decreases the number of air spaces and blood vessels in the lungs resulting in less oxygen to critical parts of the body.			4. Smoking can also cause fertility problems and impact sexual health in both men and women. The chemicals in cigarettes damage eggs and sperm. Men who smoke have problem getting and keeping erections.
Staying SMOKE-FREE will give one a whole lot of everything-more energy, better performance, more money in their pocket and in the long run, more life to LIVE!!!
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