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"Each day, about 4000 teens smoke a cigarette for the first time. That's nearly 1.5 million youths per year. Nicotine addiction is so powerful that every day about 1000 teens become daily smokers." "A Report of the Surgeon General: How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease, 2010." Most people do not realize how destructive cigarette smoking really is. Some believe that smoking only damages the lungs - as if that isn't bad enough. They have no idea how destructive smoking can be to the cardiovascular system. Many smokers also seem willing to "take chances" that their organs will not be damaged. This assumption is far from reality. With habitual smoking, the lungs and cardiovascular system will be damaged. Dance of the Cilia explains what happens when "being cool" becomes an addictive illness. Without getting too complicated, the book provides basic medical information on the extensive biological damage to multiple organs caused by smoking. The diseases are explained so they can be understood by those without a medical or science background. Dance of the Cilia provides the reader an invaluable minimedical guide on cancer and major life-threatening diseases of the lungs and cardiovascular system. This book is direct and "in your face" - a reasonably quick and simple read. It gives concise answers to challenging, serious topics: How smoking causes emphysema, chronic bronchitis, high blood pressure, heart disease, atherosclerosis, blood vessel damage, cancer, multiple organ damage, and addiction. How smoking causes chronic inflammation, and how damaging it is to our tissues and organs. How tissues and cells respond to cigarette toxins - and how damaged tissues and cells respond when the smoking stops. Dance of the Cilia is a vital read for teens, young adults, parents - and smokers. For several years, Don Christensen has been an instructor at two community colleges along the Front Range of Colorado. He teaches Anatomy, Physiology, Cadaver Dissection, and Pathophysiology (the stud