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Freedom from Smoking Starts Now

interesting calculation--it suggested that each cigarette you smoke takes away seven to eleven minutes from your life.

Smoking has an injurious effect on almost all body parts, but it affects your lungs most adversely.

Here are the effects smoking can have from your head to toe…

Hair – Smoking can stain the hair

Brain -- Stroke (a disruption of the blood supply to any of brain’s part due to blockage of artery in the brain, invariably damaging the brain tissue); anxiety and addiction.

Eyes –- The effect smoking can have on eyes range from as mild as watery eyes to as dangerous as cataracts and blindness.

Nose -- Attenuation of the olfactory sense; smokers no longer have a strong sense of smell.

Skin -- Smoking often leads to drying out of the skin and premature aging shows up as unwanted wrinkles.

Teeth –- Smokers invariably have discoloration and loosening of teeth. Their teeth are also much more susceptible to plaque formation and their gums to gingivitis than the non-smokers are.

Mouth and Throat -- The most devastating effects of smoking on mouth are cancer of lips, mouth, larynx and throat. Among the milder effects is a decrease in sense of taste.

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