VIDEO SEGMENT 20
For smoking cessation information and/or information on referral to a smoking cessation clinic in your area, call 1-800-4CANCER or call the American Lung Association (1-800-LUNGUSA), Heart Association or Cancer Society.

Cancer is a growth that invades tissue without control and has a tendency to spread to new sites (slides 2, 3, 4, 8, 14, 16, 17).

Emphysema is a pulmonary condition characterized by over distention and destruction of the air sacs in the lungs (slides 20 & 21).

Chronic bronchitis is prolonged inflammation of the bronchi characterized by attacks of coughing up mucous (slides 23 & 24).

Coronary heart disease is a condition such as arteriosclerosis or hardening of the arteries that reduces the blood flow through the coronary arteries to the heart muscle (slides 25 & 26).

All of this suffering and early death could have been avoided if these people never lit that first cigarette!!! (slides 37 & 38).

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