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As part of my health and wellness plan for lecture I had to submit a w.h.i.p. contract where I stated contractually some type of lifestyle altering thing I was going to do during this quarter. I chose to submit a contract where I would cut back considerably if not completely my habit of cigarettes. Because of this I thought I would look into some of the statistics and affects smoking has in order to reinforce my conviction that it is time to stop smoking. This year alone “cigarettes will kill over 420,000 Americans”(American Heart Association), and many more will suffer from cancers, and circulatory and respiratory system diseases, and this number is on the rise. These horrible illnesses were known to originate from cigarettes for years, and recently the Food and Drug Administration declared nicotine, the main chemical additive in cigarettes, addictive.
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