Hospital Bans Smoking - Smokers Polute Neighborhood

To understand why I get so frustrated with smokers, check out the guy midway through this interview who just flicks his cigarette butt onto the sidewalk and could care less, which reflects back on reason #2: Smoker's Litter.

Reason #8 - Smoking Increases Risk of Webbed or Extra Toes and Fingers

According to this article from BestSyndication.com and I quote, "Women who smoked one to 10 cigarettes while they were pregnant had a 29% greater risk of having a child with a finger or toe deformity. As the number of cigarettes increases so did the risk. Women that smoked 11 to 20 cigarettes per day increased their chances to 38%. Smoking more than 20 cigarettes per day raised the risk by 78%."

Ladies, if you're pregnant and still smoking, do your unborn child a favor and stop smoking TODAY! It's bad enough you're hurting yourself, but don't subject your unborn child to years and years of ridicule and shame due to birth defects caused by your reckless behavior...

Photo from PBS.org

Reason #7 - Smoking Effects More People Than Just The Smoker

Reason #6 - Cigarettes Eat You Alive

Reason #5 - Smoking Causes Yellow Teeth

If ever a picture said a thousand words, this is it. It's a proven fact that smoking will turn your teeth yellow over time.

What's worse, according to DentalGentleCare.com, "smoking increases the risk and severity of gum recession and gum disease leading to tooth and bone loss. Tooth loss in smokers occurs at a rate of 2.9 teeth every 10 years for men and 1.5 teeth every 10 years for women (two times the rate of tooth loss in nonsmokers).

If you start smoking at age 18 and smoke a pack a day, you could lose four to five teeth by the time you are 35!"

So, go ahead, puff away. I'm sure the gap teeth/missing teeth/yellow teeth look will come back into style some day...

Reason #4 - Smoking Destroys Your Lungs

This picture says it all. On the left is a healthy lung and on the right is a smokers lung that was destroyed by cancer. Get the picture.... Smoking kills...

Reason #3: It's A Huge Waste Of Money

The other day, I was talking to a friend of mine who smokes. He said he's going to have to quit because he can't afford it. He's up to two packs a day, which he says is about $6.00 a day. That's $42 a week on cigarettes. For something that doesn't have any positive effects and a boatload of negative effects on the body, I think I'd save that $40 a week and put it in savings. But hey, that's just me.

Reason #2: Smokers Litter

I don't know about you, but I can't stand it when I pull up to a busy intersection, and the roadside looks like a big ashtray. The misconception that smokers have is that cigarette butts will decompose and won't harm the environment. Wrong! Read this article to find out why...

If you must smoke, put your butts in the ashtray not on the ground. Thanks!

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Reason #1: Smokers Stink

Their clothes stink. Their breath stinks. Their skin stinks. Their hair stinks. Their house stinks. Their car stinks. Their fingers stink. And, worst of all, they don't even know it.

Solution: Stop Smoking! You'll smell better.