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  Get this: A cigarette's average length is about 3.5 inches, and there are about 20 cigarettes in a pack, so if you smoke a pack a day, every day for 10 years, you will have smoked 255,500 inches of cigarette (minus the filter), which totals over 21,000 feet, divide that by the number of feet in one mile (5,280) and put all those cigarettes end-to-end in the street and the grand total would equal 4 miles of cigarettes that you smoked. Take all those same numbers but use a factor of 2 packs of cigarettes per day smoked for 20 years, and that totals over 1 million inches of cigarettes , which is over 25,000 total feet, and lay all those down in the road end-to-end and you've smoked 16 miles of cigarettes . Let's take it up a notch. Take all those same figures still and now change the two pack-a-day smoker to 30 years in the making and you've got 1,533,000 inches of smokes, totaling 127,750 feet, laid out in the road is 24 miles long . And for the grand finale...

Step into a smokers shoes, if you are not one, and imagine what they are dealing with. They have a choice to make, but it's not very simple. They have to know how to quit smoking, not just entertain their "will power" or desire to nix the nicotine fits. There's one way that's working for thousands of people around the world, but it's best to know the top ten reasons to quit smoking first, so we cover those now for Natural Health News enthusiasts and smokers alike.   Top Ten Reasons to Quit Smoking:   #1. You'll be worth $500,000 more in twenty years if you quit today. When you add up typical medical bills, teeth whiteners, laundry bills, the cost of cigarettes and lighters, cost of cleaning the home, and more, you quickly reach the cost of half a million dollars. Even if you die in debt, you could have gifted that money to your kids, your siblings or charity, but it is wasted on twenty years of smoking commercial cigarettes instead....

Outside the office buildings they huddle in the cold. Away from the dinner parties they're "isolated" and some of them ashamed of themselves for still being engulfed by the habit. Like outcasts, the pariahs gather and inhale -- hold -- exhale 7,000 chemicals through a long white tube of paper full of tobacco and loaded with a short-term stimulant -- the second most addictive kind on the planet. "Gluttons for punishment" -- the non-smokers may call them. They know what they're doing to their bodies. So where's the sympathy for the plight, the blight, the horror of not being able to quit something you want to very badly? Where are the non-smokers who empathize? Where are the nutritionists now, to scream at them, that nutrition is the key to longevity, or at this point, has everyone just given up? Research blames income levels for a high correlation of smokers of commercial cigarettes, meaning possibly that the poor are more stressed out, ...

    Most smokers eat junk food nearly every day of their smoking lives, because they know that the cigarettes are already destroying most of their "healthy living," so why bother to eat right, right? There are 45 million smokers in the United States, and coincidentally Americans eat about 50 billion hamburgers a year, so go figure. In fact, McDonald's alone sells 75 burgers every second of every day . How is this relevant? Fast food, beer and aspirin are a typical consumption regimen for many smokers, who don't sleep well, have sicknesses last longer than non-smokers and have that constant hack cough. So no matter what weight a smoker may be "weighing in" at while smoking, that weight is likely to skyrocket after coming off nicotine. The hourly or bi-hourly stimulant keeps many smokers skinny or at the weight that they were when they started smoking, but there's more health detriment in store for the "ex-smoker" who doesn...