are six hundred poisons in every cigarette,” quoted the CBC

news. According to information recently released by the

British government, cigarettes contain: paint stripper,

toilet cleaner, lighter fuel, a chemical in moth balls, a

poison in gas chambers, a rocket fuel, and many other

deadly poisons. As a result of these carcinogens in

cigarettes, lung cancer remains the leading cause of death

Smoking is responsible for about one-third of potential

years of life lost due to cancer. Almost one-third of the

cancer deaths in men and almost one-quarter in women are

due to lung cancer alone (www.canadian-health-network.ca).

In addition, heavy smokers face a twenty percent higher

risk of premature death compared with non-smokers

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health). A study was done in

Finland, which covered more than one thousand men. The men

were all aged at least forty when the program was launched.

The death rate among the continuous smokers during a

period of twenty years was one-fifth higher than the people

who never smoked (http://cbc.ca). It is obvious that with

such a high risk of death rate in sm

but the majority of the time it does not help.

not only hurting themselves by smoking, but they are

action to expand workplace smoking bans.” In Tecumseh,

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