Tobacco Use Can Make You Impotent

Think you're a hot guy? Don't count on it if you smoke. Sexual functioning needs the coordination of the nervous system, hormones and the vascular system which pumps blood into the muscle tissue that keeps the erection. Smoking hinders every area. The effect? Impotence.

Source: Health Canada Online
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/tobacco/facts/health_facts/impotence.html

Money Up in Smoke

Smoking costs the United States over $150 billion each year in health-care costs including $81.9 billion in mortality-related productivity loses and $75.5 billion in excess medical expenditures.

Source: American Lung Association Fact Sheet: Smoking , February 2004

Smoking Raises Risk of Blindness

Smokers are up to four times more likely than non-smokers to develop a disease that is the leading cause of adult blindness, Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an irreversible and progressive illness that robs people of their sight. Evidence from three large studies shows smokers have a higher risk of suffering from it. "By far the main and most consistent preventable risk factor for macular degeneration is smoking," said Richard Edwards, a public health expert at Manchester University.

Source: The British Medical Journa, as reported on March 5, 2004 by Reuters. All rights reserved.

The Health of Your Pets

Pet lovers take notice: there's ample scientific evidence to suggest that secondhand cigarette smoke causes cancer in pets. And your furry friends don't just inhale smoke; the smoke particles are also trapped in their fur and ingested when they groom themselves with their tongues.

Source: 2002 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Health Problems caused by TSP (Tobacco Smoke Pollution)

TSP and cancer TSP (Secondhand tobacco smoke) contains over 4,000 chemical compounds. More than 60 of these are known or suspected to cause cancer.

TSP and respiratory problems each year,

TSP and death each year,

Source: The American Cancer Society