These are serious health problems. Also, passive smoking, also know as second hand smoking, which is the smoke inhaled by non-smokers who are around smokers, is know to cause the same if not more harm. In 1986, the Surgeon General of the United States reported that passive smoking could cause lung cancer in healthy non-smokers. All these reason should give any smoker a good reason to quit and non-smokers a reason not to be around smokers.
I decided to quite smoking about 20 months ago because of these reasons. I thought I was doing something good my health. Just two months ago after I saw the effects that not smoking had done to me I decided to start smoking again. In the 18 months I quit smoking I gained over 40 pounds which had a more serious effect on my health and disposition that smoking ever did. Not only were there