Cigarette smoking not only causes lung cancer, but has been implicated in chronic bronchitis, emphysema, heart disease, cardiovascular ailments. Tobacco can damage the nervous system, causing progressive blindness(a condition called tobacco amblyopia), and seems to be partially responsible for a loss of sexual vigor. Among women, frigidity can be due to smoking. Several studies and reports have indicated a greater incidence of frigidity, sterility, menstrual disturbance and miscarriage among smoking women.
Dr. Virginia Apgar(director of research for the National Foundation of the March of Dimes) declared : "There are more than a dozen medical reports on heavy smoking and its effect on the baby. It has been found that these babies are smaller than average for the length of the pregnancy - about a half pound smaller. Babies that weigh 51/2 pounds or less at birth have at least twice as high an incidence of birth defects.
Do you want your child to be born defective, smaller, retarded physically or possibly even mentally, because you craved a cigarette? What about it? If you don't care about your own life, think about the life of your unborn child, if you are an expectant mother! In physical fitness training for instructors of the British Army, it was found that in the 3-mile race an average of 3 times as many nonsmokers were among the first ten to finish the race and 3 times as many smokers among the last ten.
Smoking is incompatible with physical endurance, muscular power and aptitude to face certain emergencies requiring physical effort. but little known to many people is the effect of smoking on the mind. Two thousand experiments were held testing the effect of smoking on mental responses. It was found that in all cases smoking lowered mental efficiency from 10 to 23 percent.
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