STUDENT HEALTH CENTER

August 2008

Would you smoke if you knew?

• Smoking kills more Americans each year than any of these combined. (American Cancer Society)
  • alcohol
  • car accidents
  • suicide
  • AIDS
  • homicide
  • illegal drugs
• Nicotine is actually more addictive than heroin (Surgeon General Coop 1988)
• Even 30 minutes of secondhand smoke exposure daily can cause heart damage similar to that of a habitual smoker. 
• People who are exposed to daily secondhand smoke have a 30% higher death and disease rate than that of non-smokers. 
• Babies and children raised in a household where there is smoking have more ear infections, colds, bronchitis, and other respiratory problems than children from non-smoking families.
• It is estimated that secondhand smoke causes 3,000 lung cancer deaths and more than 50,000 coronary heart disease deaths every year.
• (Surgeon General's 2006 Report)
• Smoking damages nearly every organ in the human body, is linked to at least 15 different cancers), and accounts for some 30% of all cancer deaths. (American Cancer Society)

For information on smoking cessation contact:

RSU Student Health Center
918-343-7614