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     The following are some helpful and scary facts about smoking:
        • 8.6 million people were suffering from at least one chronic disease due to current or former smoking, according to the CDC
        • More than 4,000 individual compounds have been identified in tobacco and tobacco smoke.
        • Approximately 440,000 premature deaths each year and resulting in an annual cost of more than $75 billion in direct medical costs attributable to smoking.
        • Smoking cigarettes could increase the risk of a rare type of stroke called a subarachnoid hemorrhage, which is caused by bleeding in the brain.
        • Cigarette smoking accounts for 30% of all heart disease deaths.
        • The carbon monoxide in the cigarette smoke increases the amount of cholesterol clogging the arteries.
        •  Smoking causes a stiffness in the walls of the arteries which is harmful to the artery and increases the risk for the artery to rupture.
        • The nicotine in cigarettes can raise your blood pressure, heart rate, and the oxygen demand for muscles, especially the heart (the heart is a muscle).
        • A coronary spasm may occur during smoking, which may lead to chest pain, and a heart attack.
        • Blood clots more readily in smokers than in nonsmokers.
        • A strong association exists between smoking and leukemia.
        • The smoke at the end of a burning cigarette has more particles that are smaller and more harmful than the smoke directly inhaled by the smoker. These smaller particles go deeper into the lung tissue and do more damage.
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