3 Reasons Why You Shouldnt Smoke (cont.)

So, as I have already talked about all of the different health benefits your body will receive, I will also talk about 2 other things that you benefit from when you do not smoke.  

 

Smoking is not a cheap habit, there are so many taxes that are put on them now a days that cigarettes can range from 10 dollars a pack to 5 dollars a pack. Most people, when they smoke, smoke a pack to three packs a day. Imagine all the money you could save by quitting this habit? Smoking a pack a day for a month costs you about 150 dollars, and over an entire year about 1825 dollars. Along with this, each year if you are smoking a pack a day, after a year 60 grams of tar will be deposited into your lungs. (not all of this will remain in your lungs, because much of it is coughed out). There is so much you can do with the amount of money that you will be saving from not smoking cigarettes. You could go on a vacation, you can put a down payment on a car, you can do a lot!! (when I did this I actually calculated how much money my dad has spent on cigarettes his entire life and he could have saved over 42 thousand dollars just because he chose to start smoking when he was seventeen years old. And my dad smokes less than a pack a day!)

 

Not only are you hurting yourself when you are smoking, you are hurting other people too! There are so many different complications that non smokers experience due to inhaling second hand smoke. Children exposed to it get a lot of respiratory related problems, like asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis, and other breathing related problems. With adults, it is more likely for them to develop heart disease, and lung cancer. According to the CDC, Secondhand smoke exposure causes an estimated more than 7,300 lung cancer deaths annually with adult nonsmokers in the United States. So, not only are you hurting yourself, but by quitting smoking you are helping other people become healthier by not exposing them to all the chemicals cigarette smoke contains. 

 

I know some people will say, oh well I don’t care about hurting myself, but now you know you’re hurting other people around you as well. Also, they don’t mind spending the money for it, but who could not benefit from saving money? It helps your health too! I do not know many people who have not been able to say they don’t like to be healthy. Quitting smoking is hard, but in the long run it is very well worth it. You help yourself, and others.

 

 

 

 

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"What Happens When You Quit Smoking?" Healthline. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014.