Smoking
Did you know that since the 1st October 2008 it has not been possible for you to buy cigarettes if you are under 18?
FACT: Around 70 per cent of adult smokers started between the ages of 11 and 15 years old.FACT: A 20 a day smoker will spend over £1,500 a year on cigarettes.
FACT: As well as tobacco it is also said that there are 4,000 other chemicals in cigarettes a large number of them know to have poisonous properties.
Time to give up!
Why don’t you take the opportunity to Give up smoking? Phone 0800 085 2219 for free, confidential advice or visit your local pharmacy or talk to the school nurse.
You may have heard these facts before, but they're true!
- Smoking changes your appearance
- It gives you smelly hair and clothes and yellows your teeth.
- It leaves you with wrinkly skin, not to mention yellow hands and fingernails.
Smoking just ten cigarettes a day means 3,650 cigarettes a year. This costs roughly £770! For that amount you could have:
- Downloaded 962 songs
- Flown to Florida twice, or
- Spent three weeks holidaying in Ibiza.
When you stop smoking your body and your wallet benefits. No one can make the decision but you - so is it time to give up?
