Sixteen to wrinkly is six easy drags!

If you smoked 20 a day from age 16, here's what could happen to you:

By age 20

Cigarettes smoked: 29,120
Total cost: £6,432
Nicotine is as addictive as heroin, so your first cigarette could be the first of thousands. Half of all teenagers who continue smoking will be killed by their habit.

By age 30

Cigarettes smoked: 101,920
Total cost: £22,512
Smokers in their 30s have stained teeth, dull hair and their skin is starved of oxygen. They look older than they really are.

By age 40

Cigarettes smoked: 174,720
Total cost: £38,592
Female smokers reduce their fertility and increase their chance of miscarriage. Their babies are three times more at risk of cot death.

By age 50

Cigarettes smoked: 247,520
Total cost: £54,672
One in four smokers who started while they were teenagers die from their habit in middle age. Smokers are 20 times more likely to die from lung cancer and other smoking related illnesses.

Where can I get help?

(In the UK) Call the NHS Smoking helpline on 0800 169 0169 or visit www.givingupsmoking.co.uk for details of your local NHS stop-smoking service.

Quote:

Corrie star Sally Lindsay (plays barmaid Shelley Unwin)
She is quoted as giving up after her 40 a day habit contributed to a massive asthma attack. I rather like this line:
I quit smoking! You can do it to
Apparently she can smell it a mile off and realised she absolutely stank and that the smell makes her sick now. Funnily enough, that's what most non-smokers feel about it too…
I'd see women with horrible, pinched lips, with all the collagen gone, and I'd think, `I don`t want to look like that