FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) invites you to help your community be heart healthy and smoke free American Heart Month.   Check out CTP’s list of quitting resources and to learn how smoking affects heart health.

Did you know….

Quitting smoking now greatly reduces serious risks to your health. Smoking causes coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States. Cigarette smokers are 2–4 times more likely to develop coronary heart disease than nonsmokers. Even secondhand smoke exposure causes heart disease and lung cancer in nonsmoking adults.