Smoking Classes

By Jasmine Delane
   Smoking Cessation Classes are being held through March 6. The classes are geared toward helping smokers quit their bad habits. Classes are on Mondays at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. They are located in room 1407. These classes are being offered because quitting smoking enhances a person’s quality of life.
   According to The American Lung Association, cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of these are known to cause cancer. Smoking is responsible for 90 percent of lung cancer deaths and approximately 80-90 percent of deaths caused by emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
   An estimated 8.6 million people in the United States have at least one ailment from smoking. Not only does cigarette smoke affect the smoker, it affects the people around them as well. Secondhand smoke involuntarily inhaled by nonsmokers from other’s cigarettes is responsible for approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths yearly in American nonsmokers. And nationally, secondhand smoke kills 65,000 nonsmokers a year, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
   If any individual would like more information on the smoking cessation classes please call 424-8205. For more information about the negatives of smoking and secondhand smoke visit www.lungusa.org.