Overwhelming medical and scientific research concludes that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other serious diseases in smokers.

Smokers are far more likely to develop serious diseases, like lung cancer and heart problems, than nonsmokers.

There is no “safe” cigarette.

Smoking to reduce stress actually increases stress on your body

Each puff of smoke with nicotine temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, even as less oxygen-rich blood circulates through your body, thus increasing overall stress on your body.

Smoking also leads to clumping or stickiness in the blood vessels feeding to your heart. People who quit smoking are less likely to have heart failure.

Smokers who have had heart failure can automatically eliminate a major source of stress on their heart by quitting.