5 ways smoking causes damage beyond lungs and heart, and issues from herpes to infertility

South China Morning Post

2 days ago

Are you a smoker – or does someone you love smoke? If so, you, or they, have almost certainly had family, friends or colleagues give them reasons to stop.
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On World No Tobacco Day, we are reminded that most smokers themselves would like to quit – even if they will not admit it.
In 2022, more than two-thirds (67.7 per cent) of the 28.8 million US adults who smoked cigarettes wanted to quit, more than half (53.3 per cent) tried to quit, but fewer than 10 per cent succeeded, according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Grisly photos on cigarette packs warn of
smoking's dangers , but do not go far enough, says Tony Mok, professor of clinical oncology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Health warnings on cigarette packs. Some say they aren't enough to deter people from lighting up. Photo: Elizabeth Cheung
'The horrid pictures are merely a visual tool, but not an educational one,' he says. 'The potential harm [from]
tobacco smoking is too extensive to be listed on cigarette packets.'
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