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Appearance
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Sight
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Heart
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Babies
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Lungs
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Cancer
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Smoking
affects your appearance.
- It
stains your fingers and teeth.
- It
makes your breath, hair and clothes smell.
- Smokers
get facial wrinkles much earlier.
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Smoking
damages the heart.
- It
causes coronary disease.
- It
increases the risk of heart attack.
Smoking
is harmful to babies.
- Smoking
during pregnancy may cause the baby to be underweight, premature
or stillborn.
- Smoking
while breastfeeding is harmful because the baby ingests the
nicotine in the breast milk.
- Also,
children exposed to second-hand smoke are more likely to get
respiratory infections and asthma.
Smoking
damages your eyes.
- Chemicals
from smoking damage your eyes and can cause blindness.
- Smoking
is the main cause of blindness in Australia.
Smoking
harms your lungs.
- It
causes shortness of breath, reduced fitness, persistent coughs
and more colds and flu.
- It
causes pneumonis and chronic bronchitis.
- It
can lead to emphysema, a lung disease.
- It
causes lung cancer.
Smoking
increases the risk of cancer.
- Smokers
can develop cancer of the lung, throat, mouth, bladder, kidney,
pancreas, cervix, breast or stomach.
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