START TO QUIT!

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Smoking and other forms of tobacco use have deadly effects on our health. Let’s help our friends, families, and members of our community Start To Quit!

Here’s some information that may help convince you and others to Start To Quit:

• Research shows that women who smoke during pregnancy increase the risk of complications, premature delivery, low-birth-weight infants, stillbirth, and sudden infant death syndrome [SIDS].
• Toxic ingredients in cigarette smoke travel throughout the body and can cause cancer, heart disease, respiratory disease, stroke, and can have other negative health effects.
• Ten percent of smokers alive today are living with a smoking-related illness.
• Nationally, more than 5.6 million years of potential life are lost each year as a result of smoking.
• More than 6.4 million children living today will die prematurely because of a decision they will make as adolescents — the decision to start smoking.

What can you do to help? If we work together, we can change these alarming statistics.

• Educate a young person on the deadly effects of tobacco use and second hand smoke.
• Talk to young mothers about the health risks to the unborn child.
• Implement a smoking cessation class for smokers at work.
• Educate individuals about post-cessation weight gain.
• Start To Quit!

WANT TO QUIT SMOKING? Call the Wayne County Department of Public Health to get help at: 734-727-7066

If you would like more information on the negative health impacts of tobacco use, visit the Centers for Disease Control web site:

:: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/ » ::

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