Harmful Effects of Smoking and Tobacco Use

Cigarette smoking takes the lives of one in five people (more than 443,000) yearly in the U.S., which is more lives lost than from a combination of AIDS, motor vehicle collisions, illegal drugs, alcohol, homicides, and suicides.

Antibiotic – Antimicrobial Resistance

Antibiotic resistance is when bacteria develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them.  When an antibiotic is taken, sometimes the bacteria is able to adapt and change its structure enabling it to survive and become more dangerous and harder to kill.