Please stop smoking

Cigarette smoke contains nicotine and carbon monoxide. These ingredients lower oxygen levels in blood cells. With lowered oxygen levels, and damaged vessel walls due to smoke, clots may form in the blood, and blood pressure increases. As a result of this a stroke can occur, which can be more severe if a clot forms in the brain, or if the blood pressure in the brain ruptures a blood vessel.

Smoking causes a lot of health issues in individuals that smoke as well as those around them. Heart attacks, asthma, cancer and strokes all can be caused by smoking, but they don't have to be. It is totally preventable if a person can just bring themselves to stop smoking, or avoid being around smokers. This doesn't mean that these illness won't occur, just that the risk of them occurring is greatly reduced. There is help out there for those that want to stop smoking. Patches, gum, therapy and other aids are available to reduce a smoker's intake. The biggest step has to be made by the smoker though.

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