Girls Start Smoking While Dieting


The motives to start smoking are different for various groups of people. Some feel stress and need to cope with it as they used to do in childhood: by sticking something in their mouths, but instead of a pacifier, adults prefer cigarettes. Some start the habit because they want to be “like everybody else” or because they want to “look cool”. Some people try to smoke because they think cigarettes can keep them in good shape.
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Smoking during Pregnancy


If there exist more or less suitable times to quit smoking, there is probably no better time to do so than when people plan to have a baby. A healthy baby is guaranteed to be born to a healthy mother, but it is rare for those who have some kind of bad habits. It is proven that smoking influences a baby a lot: starting from mother’s ability to conceive and carry a baby for the full nine-month period and ending with high risks of SIDS and asthma.
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Smoking Causes Hair Loss


Smoking has bad influence on all organs of human body. It is wrong to think that only lungs suffer from it and lung cancer is the only danger that might be brought by the bad habit. Scientists of different schools have been proving year after year that about a dozen of different variants of cancer: starting with lung and mouth and finishing with breast and bladder cancers might be brought by nicotine and 4,000 other chemicals that come in tobacco.
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King James I and Tobacco


While the whole world was excited about the newly discovered tobacco, there were some people unhappy with it. King James I wrote, “Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”
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Smoking for Stress Relief


All people experience stress from time to time and they cope with it differently. For many of them cigarettes are great “helpers” which are claimed to calm down the nerves and to relax. As one of the old-time heavy smokers said, “Cigarettes are just adult pacifiers. You stick ‘em in your mouth when you get stressed.” At the same time Dr. Allen Carr, the author of Easy Way to Stop Smoking, thinks, “Smoking to relieve stress is like drinking alcohol to get sober.”
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