Smoking causes cancer. We’ve all heard that. Everyone knows that lung cancer is one of the most devastating side effects of smoking. However, what is less known is that it puts smokers at risk of many other types of cancers as well, for example, mouth cancer, cancer of the larynx (voice box), bladder, pancreas and cervix among several others.

Smoking not only harms you, but others around you as well. Indirect inhalation of tobacco smoke, or ‘passive smoking’ is a health risk to others. It can cause lung cancer and heart disease even in healthy non-smokers.Hence, the case for quitting smoking is strong. Quitting will improve your life and of those around you as well. Let us all strive for a tobacco free world.