Smoking is one of the most common forms of recreational drug use. That's right: drugs. Even though cigarettes are not banned as marijuana and cocaine are, they are still drugs. Worse still, cigarettes are the only drug that is almost as harmful to the people around you as it is to you. If you're a smoker, you're probably bombarded by TV ads, print campaigns, family members, and random Mississauga limo drivers that you ought to quit. As you'll see if you care to browse this website, there's a good reason for this. Smoking will kill you, and you don't want to die, do you?

The evidence to support the harmful health effects of tobacco smoking is overwhelming. As early as the 1920s, scientists were aware of the link between lung cancer and smoking, but as late as the 1950s, many governments were still handing out free cigarettes with soldier's rations, like they were as important as tea or butter. According to the WHO, cigarette smoking causes more than 5.5 million deaths in a single year. That's more than twice the population of the city of Toronto. Imagine, everyone in Toronto - your neighbors at 77 Carlton, your friends, your co-workers - all dropping dead in one year. And it's not just lung cancer causing the deaths either. Smoking also causes pulmonary disease, heart attacks, mouth cancer, birth defects, and is the number one cause of pancreatic cancer.

Mississauga Real Estate Bruce Witchel -- Mississauga real estate agent: (416) 948-2435. www.brucewitchel.com Aurora Dentist Click today for information about our team of dentists in Aurora Ontario! www.AuroraSmileCentre.com Markham House for Sale Be sure to take a look at our featured Markham real estate listings. www.HomesInMarkham.ca Internet Marketing Toronto Get the most reasonable rates in the SEO marketing business! 416-477-5663 www.Toronto-Internet-Marketing.ca

Even if you don't care whether you die of cancer or not, the fact is that every cigarette you smoke is hurting someone else. Waitresses who have never smoked a cigarette in their lives die of lung cancer from working in smoky restaurants. Children whose parents smoke inside their Festival Towers homes develop life threatening asthma. Even if you smoke outside, you're likely forcing people coming inside to walk through a cloud of deadly smoke. You may have the right to harm yourself if you wish, but you do not have the right to harm others.

And it's not just your heath and your family's health that suffers when you smoke. Cigarettes are expensive, and buying them may be the difference between your Toronto catering job actually supporting you and you going into spiraling credit card debt. Smoking will also damage your clothes, skin, teeth, and make your home smell, costing you thousands of dollars in cleaning bills or lost revenue if you decide to sell your home or car. It's just not worth it.

To find out more about the health, social, and financial side effects of smoking, browse our articles. We've also got information on cigarettes, the history of tobacco use, how cigarettes affect your body, what's in them, and how you can get help if you want to quit smoking. In the old days, people smoked because they want to fit in. Now so many anti-smoking laws have been passes that smokers are the pariahs. If you want to fit in with your fellow Ajax real estate agents again, you should quit smoking. We can help you. You can do it.