Stamping Out Smoking!
The Center for Healing Hearts and Spirits, through its collaboratives, provides individuals with tobacco prevention education on the ills of tobacco products usage.
Secondhand Smoke Facts
The tobacco industry claims they’re working to make a difference. But the effect of the product they sell hasn’t changed a bit. Tobacco continues to kill millions of people around the world every year leaving devastated families to deal with the loss.
Did You Know That…

• Secondhand smoke kills about 3,000 nonsmokers each year from lung cancer.
• Secondhand smoke causes up to 300,000 lung infections (such as pneumonia and bronchitis) in infants and young children each year.
• On average, someone who smokes a pack or more of cigarettes each day lives 7 years less than someone who never smoked.
• Secondhand smoke causes wheezing, coughing, colds, and earaches.
• Secondhand smoke causes asthma. A smoker can develop emphysema & other diseases from tobacco smoke.

Each year in the U.S., smoking kills more people than murder, AIDS, drug abuse, alcohol, car crashes, fires and suicides combined. Health care costs in Arkansas alone total more than six hundred and thirty million dollars a year.
What about kids? Parents who smoke increase the likelihood that a child will do the same. Courts have even considered smoke in child custody cases. Secondhand smoke is linked to bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma and more.
And if you’re pregnant? If you smoke or frequently inhale secondhand smoke, your baby is more likely to die from a miscarriage, be still born, die from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), be premature, be underdeveloped, or develop a childhood cancer.

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