London, Europe Brief News – Tobacco causes 8 million deaths every year. Globally, more than 1 billion people are estimated to smoke tobacco.
Collectively, they smoked 5.8 trillion cigarettes in 2014, according to the 2015 Tobacco Atlas.
The benefits of quitting tobacco are almost immediate. After just 20 minutes of quitting smoking, your heart rate drops.
Within 12 hours, the carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal. Within 2–12 weeks, your circulation improves and lung function increases. Within 1–9 months, coughing and shortness of breath decrease.
Within 5–15 years, your stroke risk is reduced to that of a non-smoker. Within 10 years, your lung cancer death rate is about half that of a smoker.
Within 15 years, your risk of heart disease is that of a non-smoker. If that’s not enough here are a few more reasons!
1. For your health
Smoking tobacco has a multitude of effects on human health with its biggest impact on the heart and lungs.
This impact is wide-ranging, from increased risk of lung cancer and heart attacks to aging of the skin, psoriasis, acne and a decreased sense of smell and taste — to name a few.
2. To live longer
According to the World Lung Foundation, quitting before the age of 40 reduces a smoker’s chance of death from tobacco-related illness by 90%.
A 2005 study among British doctors concluded that people who stop smoking at ages 60, 50, 40, or 30 gain approximately 3, 6, 9, or 10 years of life expectancy, respectively.
3. To save money
Increased tobacco taxation and the resulting rise in the cost of tobacco products is considered among the most effective control measures to date with less people continuing, or taking up smoking, as a result.
