can smoking stunt your growth?
435611
stunt your breathing, slow oxygen to your heart and brain cause severe coughing and makes you stink let alone may very likely cause cancer in you or someone sucking your second hand smoke, smoking sucks the life right out of you.
287608
Sorry, but no. The only thing you grow into is your nose and ears because neither ever get larger. As for the belly, exercise. Sorry.
375649
You need to provide your body with real vitamins and minerals from vegetables and natural foods.  Sugar and white flour and fried foods that have no nutritional value can actually stunt your growth.  I do not drink milk.  Humans are the ONLY species that drinks milk after they are babies...PLUS we drink it from another species!  I wouldnt give my cat my breast milk!  Thats just wrong.  You are still young!  Eat really healthy (tons of veggies!), drink lots of water, get enough sleep and exercise regularily, dont smoke or do drugs (they can make you smaller) and with time you will grow!  Dont be impatient!  You are only a kid once!
321629
That would be Excercise, it can do both. Smoking won't help you loose weight, and it won't affect your period. It will ruin your lungs, put you at risk of cancer, stain your teeth, give you wrinkles, age your skin, put an unborn child at risk, make your clothes, car and  house smell bad,and many other unpleasant and dangerous things. Stop the cigs and do more excercise, your life will be much better.
65030
yep. You're not going to stunt your growth just because you slept wrong. don't woory. you'll grow up to be just as big as nature meant for you to be.
351416
I started smoking when I was 11 years old and 5'o. I'm 45 years old and 6'1. Avoid smoking please.
83905
There are so many things that smoking does to the body. The really sad fact is that it does not just hurt the smoker. It really does effect all persons around them. \nA smoker has increased risk of respiratory and vascular complications. Smoking actually creates a tar substance in the lungs and decreases the persons capacity to take in oxygen. Also smokers veins and arteries are constricted from chemicals in the cigarettes. This puts them at a higher risk for blood clot causing stroke.\nMothers who smoke when they are pregnant usually have smaller babies. A nonsmokers umbilical cord (which supplies nourishment to the baby) is usually about wide as a roll of quarters and the smokers umbilical cord is about as thick as a pencil. \nChildren who grow up in the home of a smoker are at higher risk for developing asthma and/or allergies. They can develop lung cancer just as easily as the actual smoker can. Not to mention that growing up with parents who smoke puts them at higher risk for becoming smokers themselves. \nI have a grandfather that smokes. He is eighty. The last several years he has been on oxygen. He wakes up at night because he can't get his breath. He has a barrel chest because that is what your body does to try and help you get more oxygen. Your lungs try to get bigger so they can take in more oxygen because the cigarettes have destroyed portions of the lungs over the many years of smoking. Some people would say he has made it to eighty and that is a long time for a smoker to live. You have to keep in mind that most of his family lived into or close to their 100's. They say that every cigarette takes five minutes off your life. There is no telling how long he could have lived if he had just been able to stop smoking.
82263
I'm not sure about that, but I think that it possibly could, because it does in adults.\nSecond hand smoke also causes cancer, so it's best to not let your child around any cigarette smoke.\n\n\n...not to mention, it just stinks really bad...
253812
Quitting smoking does slow your metabolism.  It's also a mental thing.  You keep yourself occupied by eating so you won't obey the crave to smoke.  Think about this heath benefits though... Charred lungs, or a larger waistline.  You choose.  \n\nI gained 35 lbs. when I quit, after 11 years of smoking.  But I began to walk and excercise and I lost it all.  \n\nGo for it.  Walk over to that garbage can and throw those things out!  You did it before and you can do it again!  The longer you wait, the slower your metabolism is.  (the older you get)\n\nDiet and excercise is the best way to boost the metabolism.
258917
smoking makes u live longer
200687
you can get cancer at any age whether you smoke or not! Passive smoking (IE breathing in somebody's smoke) is just as bad as doing it yourself. The best thing to do is don't start or give it up NOW! It takes years for your lungs to get back to normal!
399488
Of course you can beat the statistics like the previous answer, because some people have different genes, inhale less, eat differently and so on, but I'll bet you don't want to run any risks.\n\nThis website http://www.quitguide.com has a lot of free helpful info on quitting, weight, pregnancy etc, and some other powerful resources so you can quit quickly and for good.
996031
You can if you wan't to, but believe me it is best not to smoke, this could cause an infecton
201964
Yes and no. Smoking don't have direct affect on your metabolism. BUT, smoking can make you forget (for a moment) about eating or craving snack if you're on stress or have nothing to do. For example, if you're exploring this Yahoo answer for 2 hours and smoking all the time, you don't have any calorie intake. Imagine if in the same 2 hours you get 2 cans of soda, big french fries, a bar of chocolate, and so on. Get what I mean?
912281
No, it will not stunt your growth.  It's great that you're exercising!  Keep it up!!
325789
Quiting smoking will not make you gain weight by itself.  Weight gain is a direct result of calories consumed, and calories expended during exercise, daily activity, etc.\n\nQuiting may make you feel like you need to do something with your hands- thats partly why people start eating more after quiting. If you begin to feel like this, you should have some gum, go for a walk, or find something constructive to take your mind off of smoking.\n\nSo if you're thinking about quiting... Go ahead and do it without worrying about gaining weight- you'll feel better in the long run.\n\nGood Luck
434970
Absolutely not!\n\nMen keep growing until about the age of 21.  Avoid smoking because that stunts your growth, eat well and be positive!  There are always shoe lifts!!!!