The idea is to get people to stop smoking for a day. Stopping for a day may start the ball rolling toward stopping for good. That would be one of the greatest gifts you could give to yourself and your family.
Smoking is a lightning rod for cancer and heart disease.
Recently, it's been associated with causing erectile dysfunction in men and it also may diminish sexual function in women. New information about the dangers of secondhand smoke continues to waft up. It's estimated that more than 40,000 nonsmokers die yearly from lung cancer or heart disease caused by secondhand smoke. One study found that nonsmoking wives of smokers had a 30 percent greater chance of developing lung cancer than women who lived in tobacco-free households. The longer a woman lived with a smoker, the greater her risk.