The Great American Smokeout day is today and a spokesperson for the Iowa Chapter of the American Cancer Society is question smokers to take a other approach to the of a year event. A-C-S spokesman Chuck Reed says they’re encouraging smokers to use the day as a starting point to the end.

Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) November 19, 2009 — For many people, the Great American Smokeout day means a new beginning but West Virginian Joe Balog sees it as a excellent ending. To Joe, each November is a milestone anniversary. This year hes celebrating two years of smoke free living. In November 2007, Joe turned to Dan Vitchoff, Board Certified Hypnotherapist and President of PA Hypnosis Center in Pittsburgh, in what felt like a last straw to try to forsake smoking forever.

Great Falls High School student Sara Stewart often hears from her peers that they believe they are immune to the results of smoking.

‘I know that a lot of teenagers dont think smoke will affect them,’ Stewart said.

That was the thought behind her anti-smoking poster, which shows a woman with her left side is youthful, while her right side is old, gray and wrinkled.

Should Americans be concerned for the expand in cigarette smoking? Yes. Smoking wreckers nearly every organ in the human body and is linked to at least 15 different kind of cancers. While, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, smoking rates have stayed for alike for the past five years, anything short of a decline is surely troubling. wiki