1. Cigarettes remove stress

No, they strengthen it. Nicotine contained in tobacco products causes adrenaline emission, therefore, a person’s pressure raises, palpitation is accelerated, sugar level in blood also raises, because of what tobacco increases sensitivity to stress. Besides, nicotine is also poisonous, since it has a toxic effect on brain. With tobacco smoke lots of other harmful substances come to an organism, what gradually leads to health deterioration. And the weaker it becomes, the more subject to stresses a person becomes.

2. If you give up smoking, you can gain weight

Only for short time. In some months spent without cigarettes, weight becomes normal, because organism becomes healthier and restored.

3. Passive smoking cannot do serious harm

It can. People who are regularly in tobacco smoke’s operative range, suffer from same diseases, as smokers, up to cancer more often than others.

4. Hookah is less harmful, than cigarettes

No. Water through which smoke passes, clears only from large firm particles. Thanks to the fact that such smoke is inhaled easier,  remained small fractions get to lungs more deeply, and as a result, the harm caused by one hookah smoking is equal to harm from 40 smoked cigarettes.

5. It is impossible to be cleared of pitches in lungs completely

It is possible. But you will require about 5 years for this purpose.