Effects of Smoking on Health

Smokers are more likely to develop cancer of the mouth, tongue, and throat compared to nonsmokers.

Children with smoking parents are less likely to experience breathing and lung problems.

It is very easy to stop smoking and the chance of getting lung cancer decreases immediately after quitting.

Young people start smoking because they feel grown up and independent; it is not influenced by other people smoking.

After ten years of quitting smoking, the chance of getting lung cancer is almost the same as for nonsmokers.

Smokers have as much cancer of the mouth, tongue, and throat as nonsmokers.

Young people start smoking because it helps them relax.

Children whose parents smoke have more breathing and lung problems than other children.

Smokers have the right to kill themselves by smoking if they want to.

The chance of getting lung cancer decreases only one year after one stops smoking.