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You're right one won't hurt but it wont do me any good either . . .        All the adults I know that smoke wished they never started. Besides, being grown up means being independent, what's independent about smoking? . . .        No way - cigarettes are so last season . . .        If you were my friend you wouldn't be asking me to do something that could hurt me . . .        No way - nobody smokes anymore. I'm in the majority mate . . .        
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Health effects of smoking

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Smoking will give you a full body makeover – in a bad way – as it affects every part of you both inside and out. These may happen straight away and others may take longer to occur. Check out some of the effects of smoking on the body below.  

  

Keeping fit is also a lot harder if you smoke. Those who smoke:
  • are more easily exhausted
  • suffer shortness of breath
  • have reduced endurance
  • are slower to react
  • have poorer visual judgement  

Watch the following graphic Aussie TV ads to learn more about the effects of smoking on the body. 

Mouth cancer TV advertisement

Mouth cancer TV advertisement

This ad shows you smoking doesn't make you look pretty.
Amputation TV advertisement

Amputation TV advertisement

Learn how moking can cause you to loose you legs.
Artery TV advertisement

Artery TV advertisement

Shows how smoking can clog up your arteries and reduce blood flow around your body.

Stroke TV advertisement

Stroke TV advertisement

See how smoking can cause a blood clot in your brain and cause a stroke.
Eye TV advertisement

Eye TV advertisement

Learn how smoking can make you blind.
Lung cancer TV advertisement

Lung cancer TV advertisement

See what a lung cancer caused by smoking really looks like.


For more information on the effects of smoking on the body and being active check out:

  • OxyGen's Interactive Biopsy game 
  • The effects of smoking on the body fact sheet (PDF 536kb)
  • Effects of cigarette smoking on being active fact sheet (PDF 497kb) 
  • What one cigarette does fact sheet (PDF 67kb)
  • Tobacco in Australia: Facts and Issues - Chapter 3: The health effects of active smoking
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