Clinical data show that smoking is a factor in 20% of all Tuberculosis (TB) deaths in South Africa.
World No Tobacco Day is often reduced to standard warning labels and detached public statistics.
However, the true reality of smoking is far more personal, immediate and systemic than most people realise.
Smoking does not simply damage your vital organs "someday in the distant future". Instead, every single cigarette alters your biological system almost instantly from the very second toxic smoke enters your lungs.
Each inhale places an immediate, immense stress on your heart, blood vessels, respiratory tract and immune defenses.
