In 1964, The United States Surgeon General first reported that smoking was hazardous to your health. According to the American Cancer Society, if you smoke, your risk of dying from lung cancer is 12 times greater than a non-smoker.

Due to the addictive nature of nicotine, kicking the smoking habit isn't easy, but it can be done. Once you make the decision to stop, set a particular day to quit.

While the laws concerning smoking and tobacco use vary by state and city, most smoking legislation share two main traits. The first is enforcing the legal age of 18 to buy cigarettes and tobacco.

Cigarette smoking is harmful, not only to the smoker, but to those around the smoker who are forced to breathe in the secondary smoke. Most lung cancer is caused by cigarette smoking.

As smoking becomes increasingly less popular due to health risks to both smokers and those around them, many people have turned to smokeless tobacco as an alternative.