For many persons, cigarette smoking is an addiction - it is difficult to quit. There are many tools that your physician can use to assist with the desire to stop smoking. Between 19,000 and 141,000 miscarriages per year in the US can be linked to smoking. The number one cause of deaths from fire is smoking. Most of the deaths occur when somebody falls asleep and drops a cigarette on a piece of furniture or a mattress.
More people die in fires caused by smoking than by forest fires and arson-induced fires combined.
More young people are killed by parental second-hand smoke than by all other unintentional injuries combined. There is an ever increasing amount of evidence that people who exercise regularly and properly are less prone to life threatening disease. Regular exercise affords many benefits in contrast with those who do not participate in regular exercise. Pain relief - exercise may help alleviate pains such as backache Weight Management and Body Mass Index Excess body weight increases the risk of death from any cause and from cardiovascular disease in adults between 30 and 74 years of age. The measurement of Body Mass Index is calculated as a ratio of a persons weight to height.