1. DON’T SMOKE OR YOU’LL GO BROKE

2. THE COST OF SMOKING Smoking is expensive, but when people consider the cost of smoking, they usually limit their focus to the cost of the cigarettes they smoke. While the cost of cigarettes by itself can add up to close to $1500 a year, the reality is that the cost of the cigarettes is only a small portion of the overall monetary cost of smoking.

3. AFTER ONE DAY OF NOT SMOKING…. After one day of not smoking, you’ve got an extra $11.50 in your pocket. You could treat yourself to a movie ticket or buy a couple of your favorite magazines. The health benefits of not smoking for one day include: Most of the nicotine is cleared from your body. Your blood pressure and heart rate are dropping towards normal levels. <3

4. AFTER ONE WEEK OF NOT SMOKING….. Now you’ve got an extra $80 in your pocket!! You could take a date to a dinner and to the movies or buy a new clothes and get some swag.(: The health benefits of not smoking for one week include: The small hair-like structures that clean your lungs, called cilia, are starting to work again. Accumulated phlegm from smoking will loosen and you will start to cough it up. Your body is purged of most nicotine by- products.

5. AFTER ONE MONTH OF NOT SMOKING…….. You’ve saved $350. You could go away for a weekend, do some fine dining or save for college. The health benefits of not smoking for one month include: Your lungs are working more efficiently. Exercising is easier. Your blood pressure has returned to normal. Your immune system is starting to recover.

6. AFTER ONE YEAR OF NOT SMOKING….. You’ve saved $4,200. This is enough for a new plasma or around-the-world plane ticket or a new computer system. The health benefits of not smoking for one year include: Your increased risk of premature death from heart attack is halfed.

7. H3ALTH CAR3 C0$T The total cost of caring for people with health problems caused by cigarette smoking -- counting all sources of medical payments -- is about $72.7 billion per year, according to health economists at the University of California.

8. DEATHS Deaths from smoking 1990: cardiovascular diseases...179,820 lung cancer...............119,920 other cancers.............31,402 respiratory diseases......84,475 total.....................415,597

9. LUNG CANCER……… Lung cancer is among the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. The American Lung Association estimates that more then 215,000 Americans will be diagnosed with lung cancer this year, and more than 161,000 will die of the disease. Between 10 percent and 15 percent of lung cancers are diagnosed in nonsmokers, the association estimates. The average hospital stay cost for lung cancer in 2006 cost $14,200, and the death rate was 13 percent, five times higher than the death rate for all hospitalized people.

10. Lung Cancer Continued In your first year of lung cancer it will cost up to $24,700 in treatment and diagnoses. Just for the surgery for lung cancer can be from $$12,000-100,000

11. Thanks to GOOGLE- for the facts and pictures MRS.DRENNAN- for helping me find more facts. and last but not least to….. ALL THE DUMB PEOPLE THAT SMOKED ALREADY TO SHOW AND GIVE AN EXAMPLE NOT TO SMOKE(: