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By Terry Martin, About.com Guide to Smoking Cessation since 2003

5 Reasons to Quit Smoking Now

Saturday April 11, 2009
All smokers harbor the secret hope that they will be spared the disease and death that follows nicotine addiction. We tell ourselves we’ll quit in time and somehow dodge the bullet that smoking is. But with four million people dying every year due to tobacco use around the world, the odds aren’t in our favor.

Put another way, a smoking-related death occurs somewhere in the world every 8 seconds, 365 days a year. The sooner we remove the blinders and look carefully at nicotine addiction and the damage it causes, the sooner we can begin pull away from its lies.

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