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Smoking Facts and Figures by: Colin Beach A random list of statements, facts and figures relating to smoking. Hopefully this list will give you the final push to be committed to giving up smoking. When you have read it, visit www.abouthowtoquitsmoking.com for further information, help and advice. If you smoke more than 25 cigarettes a day are 25 times more likely to die from cancer and almost twice as likely to die from heart disease. Each cigarette on average takes 11 minutes off your life. Fifty diseases are caused by smoking causes. Twenty of them are fatal. Seven out of ten smokers say that they want to give up. Nicotine stimulates the central nervous system, which increases the heart rate and blood pressure. If you carry on smoking you have a one in two chance of dying from it. Smoking is the number one avoidable cause of premature death in the UK. Smoking related diseases cost the UK National Health Service about £1.7 billion a year. If you want facial wrinkles at an early age just carry on smoking. £'1
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