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It’s been 7 years since I quit smoking, so finally, I can bring myself to write about it, without receiving smarmy looks from all my smoking friends!

Fact: One tree is cut to fire-cure every 300 cigarettes rolled in paper, which if you smoke a pack a day = one tree every two weeks.

Fact: Each time you light a cigarette, you’re not just blowing smoke, but up to 4000 chemicals into the atmosphere, including benzene and hydrogen cyanide.

Fact: In producing cigarettes, over 11.6 kgs of pesticides are used on crops, and their residue finds it’s way into rivers and steams and of course, the soil.

And finally, think of all the littering that happens with all those smoked out butts! It takes around 18 months to 12 years for them to finally decompose! In the meantime, the chemicals continue to pollute the grass, beach, woods..or whereever they’ve been dropped, not to mention the serious harm they could cause wildlife, which may unsuspectingly ingest them.

So, if you are thinking of quitting because of your own health reasons, now you can add the above facts to help you reach that decision even faster!

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