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Smoking is a horrible
addiction. We provide an easy way to stop smoking and give help to the Orlando, Florida Area. Take a look at some of these Smoking facts...
Smoking Facts
Every year, close to 342,000
Americans die of lung disease. Lung disease is America's number
three killer, responsible for one in seven deaths.
Lung disease is not only a killer, most lung disease is
chronic. More than 35 million Americans are now living with chronic
lung disease.
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Cigarette smoke contains over 4,800
chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause
cancer. Smoking is directly responsible for
approximately 90 percent of lung cancer
deaths and approximately 80-90 percent of
COPD (emphysema and chronic bronchitis)
deaths.
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About 8.6 million people in the U.S. have at
least one serious illness caused by smoking.
That means that for every person who dies of
a smoking-related disease, there are 20 more
people who suffer from at least one serious
illness associated with smoking.
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Among current smokers, chronic lung disease
accounts for 73 percent of smoking-related
conditions. Even among smokers who have quit
chronic lung disease accounts for 50 percent
of smoking-related conditions.
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Smoking is also a major factor in coronary
heart disease and stroke; may be causally
related to malignancies in other parts of
the body; and has been linked to a variety
of other conditions and disorders, including
slowed healing of wounds, infertility, and
peptic ulcer disease. For the first time,
the Surgeon General includes pneumonia in
the list of diseases caused by smoking
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In 2005, 23 percent of high school students
were current smokers. Over 8 percent of
middle school students were current smokers
in 2004.
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Secondhand smoke involuntarily inhaled by
nonsmokers from other people's cigarettes is
classified by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency as a known human (Group A)
carcinogen, responsible for approximately
3,400 lung cancer deaths and 46,000 (ranging
22,700-69,600) heart disease deaths in adult
nonsmokers annually in United States.
* data courtesy of the
American Lung association
Cigar Smoking
Cigars contain the same
addictive, toxic and carcinogenic compounds found in
cigarettes. In fact, cigar smokers may spend up to an hour
smoking a single large cigar that can contain as much
tobacco as a pack of cigarettes.
While almost all cigarette
smokers inhale, most cigar smokers do not. Therefore, the
risk of lung cancer is lower for cigar smokers than
cigarette smokers. However, the risk increases with the more
frequent cigar smoking and depth of inhalation. Studies
show that men who smoke at least five cigars a day and
report moderate inhalation, experience lung cancer deaths at
about two-thirds the rate of men who smoke one pack of
cigarettes a day.
Cigar smokers experience
higher rates of lung cancer, heart disease, and chronic
obstructive lung disease than nonsmokers. Studies show that
men who smoke at least three cigars a day are two to three
times more likely to die of lung cancer than non-smokers.
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Orlando's Laser Smoking Clinic

Cigarette smoking is the #1 cause of
preventable
disease in the United States!
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Smoking in pregnancy accounts for an estimated
20 to 30 percent of low-birth weight babies, up
to 14 percent of preterm deliveries, and some 10
percent of all infant deaths. Even apparently
healthy, full-term babies of smokers have been
found to be born with narrowed airways and
curtailed lung function.
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Only about 30 percent of women who smoke stop
smoking when they find out they are pregnant;
the proportion of quitters is highest among
married women and women with higher levels of
education. Smoking during pregnancy declined in
2004 to 10.2 percent of women giving birth, down
42 percent from 1990.
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Neonatal health-care costs attributable to
maternal smoking in the U.S. have been estimated
at $366 million per year, or $704 per maternal
smoker.
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Smoking by parents is also associated with a
wide range of adverse effects in their children,
including exacerbation of asthma, increased
frequency of colds and ear infections, and
sudden infant death syndrome. Secondhand smoke
causes an estimated 150,000 to 300,000 cases of
lower respiratory tract infections in children
less than 18 months of age, resulting in 7,500
to 15,000 annual
hospitalizations.

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Secondhand Smoke and children
Children who
breathe secondhand smoke are more likely to suffer from pneumonia,
bronchitis, and other lung diseases.
Children who
breathe secondhand smoke have more ear infections.
Children who
breathe secondhand smoke are more likely to develop asthma.
Children who have
asthma and who breathe secondhand smoke have more asthma attacks.
There are an
estimated 150,000 to 300,000 cases every year of infections, such as
bronchitis and pneumonia in infants and children under 18 months of
age who breathe secondhand smoke. These result in between 7,500 and
15,000 hospitalizations!
Healing Laser Clinics is seconds from the I-4
exit for Lake Mary Blvd. We are close to Orlando, Lakeland,
Deland, Deltona, Apopka, Titusville, Longwood and Daytona and
Disney.
To schedule an appointment or learn
more about our clinic,
Call 407-833-3800 or 877-88-SMOKE
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