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All your rights, including help for tenants and landlords, benefits, job applications....
24 hour confidential emotional support
Tel: 08457 90 90 90
An independent charity to help people who are affected by crime.
If you are being bullied where you work, see this UK site.
The UK charity to help catch criminals using an anonymous free phone number: Tel:
0800 555 111
with lots of information, tips and links.
Complaint about a flight or not sure
of your rights while flying?
Free, impartial, confidential advice.
on nearly everything.
Need free urgent health advice?
Tel: 0845 4647
For female survivors of sexual violence and abuse.
Tel: 0115 900 3560
Would you like to talk to someone about HIV? Tel: 0845 1221 200
(open long hours)
Free, 24-hour helpline for children and young people in the UK.
Tel: 0800 1111
Resources for advisers, students and everyone involved in education, training and
communities
Tel: 020 7837 7324
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
If you smoke, your quality of life is lower - and it can only get worse!
Look at these facts.
Smoking kills around six times more people than all other killers put together!
Road traffic accidents (3,391), other accidents (8,933), poisoning and overdose (3157),
murder and manslaughter (495), suicide (4,485), and HIV infection (180).
Every year, around 120,000 smokers in the UK die as a result of their habit.
Half of all regular cigarette smokers will be killed by their habit.
Smoking causes around 90% of lung cancer deaths, 17% of all heart disease deaths
and at least 80% of deaths from bronchitis and emphysema. And 30% of deaths from
all types of cancer.
It is estimated that several hundred cases of lung cancer and several thousand cases
of heart disease in non-smokers in the UK are caused by passive smoking - breathing
other people's tobacco smoke. Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemical compounds,
which are present either as gases or as tiny particles.
Smokers stink of stale smoke! Smokers don't notice it - but other people do!
Smokers' houses stink of stale smoke - they don't notice it, but others do!
A big majority of home fire accidents start because of lighted cigarettes.
Smokers' children suffer ill-health because of their parents' addiction.
Smokers' children are deprived of their parents at an early age, or spend years having
to look after - and worry about - parents who are seriously or terminally ill. Is
this what you want for your child?
Smoking causes diseases never suspected before, including cataracts, acute myeloid
leukemia and cervical, kidney, pancreatic and stomach cancers.
In fact, smoking affects just about every organ of the body.
The toxins from cigarette smoke go everywhere the blood flows.
"I'm hoping this new information will help motivate people to quit smoking and convince
young people not to start in the first place." says a US expert.
Saliva contains antioxidants, molecules that normally protect the body against cancer,
but it has been discovered that cigarette smoke destroys the molecules and turns
saliva into a dangerous compound.
"Our study shows that once exposed to cigarette smoke, our normally healthy saliva
not only loses its beneficial qualities but it turns traitor and actually aids in
destroying the cells of the mouth and oral cavity," said Dr Rafi Nagler, of the Technion-Israel
Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.
'Smoking ages and destroys the skin' - Chief Medical Officer, British Government.
People who smoke have no respect for their body - how can the expect anybody to respect
them?
... and you still want to smoke? You have serious mental problems, too!
In the UK, to find out how to end your addiction, call
0800 169 0 169
The British Heart Foundation
Action on Smoking and Health ASH
The BBC on nicotine.
Want to quit smoking?
How to give up smoking! Click the button
