Create a "EXCLUSIVE SMOKING ZONE"
in your company and ensure the Smoking Zone Contains the following quotes printed in bold:
* Hang Tough, Don't Puff!
Smokers Don't Get To Smoke. They have to smoke.
* Don't Despair. Breathe the Air.
[C] 60 Reasons For Not Smoking
From Blair's QuitSmokingSupport Newsletter,
www.QuitSmokingSupport.com
60 reasons for NOT smoking!
* Personal health:
o Increases the risk of lung cancer
o Increases the risk of emphysema
o Increases the risk of cardio-vascular disease
o Increases the risk of breast cancer
o Increases the risk of cancer of mouth, oesophagus and other forms of bronchial cancer
o Increases the risk of all forms of cancer not mentioned above
o Increases the risk of stroke
o Increases the risk of pneumonia
o Increases the risk of bronchitis
o Increases the risk of diseases of the eye (e.g. Graves' disease)
o Increases the risk of back complaints
o Increases the risk of ear complaints
o Increases the risk of vascular constriction
o Increases the risk of respiratory disease
o Affects breathing quality
o Affects the operation of the immune system
o Causes deteriation of general physical condition
o Increases the chance of impotence (erection problems)
o Increases the chance of infertility
o Reduces the capacity of the blood to take in oxygen
o Increases the risk of dental illness
* Health of others:
o Increases the chance of miscarriage or damage to the foetus
o Lower birth weight of children
o Lower mental capacity (IQ) of children
o Increased chance of SID (cot death) when the parents smoke
o Increased chance of other causes of infant death
o Affects the health of children
o Affects the health of others in the environment
o Sore eyes and eye diseases of others as a result of tobacco smoke
o Increases the chance of contamination during sexual contact (semen, fingers)
o Increases the chance of disease due to drinking contaminated breast milk
* Quality of life:
o Physical addiction
o Psychological addiction
o Social addiction
o Loss of sense of smell
o Loss of sense of taste
o Limitation of the possibility of maintaining a relationship
* Personal hygiene:
o Body odours
o Breath odours
o Evil smelling clothes
o Yellow, unattractive hands
o Bye, white teeth!
o Premature ageing of skin leading to an older appearance
* Domestic aspects:
o Stale air indoors
o Increased fire risk
o Dirty walls and ceilings
o Dirty furniture, fittings and household goods
o Filthy, smelly ashtrays
o Chance of poisoning children due to swallowing cigarette butts
* Social:
o Inconveniences others in the vicinity
o Handicap in social dealings
o More difficult to get a job
o More difficult to get a partner
o Bad example to growing children
* General:
o Constant fear of running out of cigarettes
o Often having to look for means of lighting cigarettes
o Often having to look for places where it's possible and allowed to smoke
o Accidents caused by smoking in cars
o Becoming a slave to the profit motive of the tobacco industry
o and Oh! the enormous cost!
"Smoking injures your health - No smoking insures your health"
Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it.
It satisfies no normal need. I like it.
It makes you thin, it makes you lean,
It takes the hair right off your bean
It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen.
I like it.
The best way to stop smoking is to just stop - no ifs, ands or butts. ~Edith Zittler
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide. ~Kurt Vonnegut
It's all one thing - both tend into one scope -
To live upon Tobacco and on Hope,
The one's but smoke, the other is but wind.
~Sir Robert Aytoun of Kincaldie, "Sonnet on Tobacco"
The cigarette does the smoking - you're just the sucker. ~Author Unknown