A burning cigarette is a small chemical factory that produces more than 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known cancer-causing substances and over 400 other toxins. Smoking clogs and destroys your lungs, thus reducing the blood's ability to carry oxygen. It is a lack of circulation that also leads to impotence in men. The Marlboro Man cannot maintain his erection. Smoking also affects fertility in women. Worse than this are the numerous diseases caused by smoking: heart disease, stroke, lung disease, lung cancer, and other forms of cancer. You smoke, you die.

Smoking causes blood vessels to constrict, which raises blood pressure and speeds the aging of the skin, causing facial wrinkling at younger ages, particularly in women. Smoking also appears to speed up the aging process in general. The stained teeth, stained fingers and ashtray cologne are not very beneficial to ones appearance either.

Would you like to have an extra $2,000 a year to spend on whatever you want? It would be helpful, wouldn't it? Here's how to get it: quit buying cigarettes. Got money?

Most smokers started at an age when they were easily swayed by peer pressure. Once they began, in order to be "cool", they never had a chance to quit. They were targeted by the marketing of the big tobacco corporations and hooked by their drug. Nicotine is as addictive as heroin. The cycle of addiction is real. We can help you break it!

"Tobacco companies have called kids replacement smokers. That means we're supposed to replace the 1,200 smokers who die every day."

Strategic Research Report, R.J. Reynolds, 1984

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Santa Clara County Public Health Dept. Tobacco Prevention and Education Program and the Tobacco Control Coalition

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