It seems the media can’t get enough of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle who have been in the limelight of attention in the media since their engagement. The official marriage date has been set at May 19th and that will be one great pomp and splendor event in Britain. But!! If Harry wants to marry Meghan, he has to quit smoking. Those are her conditions. Harry has to give upo this and she won't take no for an answer.
This is why Harry has stopped smoking much to the surprise of his inner circle of friends who have noticed him puffing less lately. In fact, he is on the verge of giving it up.
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Harry is almost a chain smoker for several years now and he has been caught by the paparazzi on several occasions puffing away. In fact, he has also been seen outside Buckingham Palace smoking and now he actually has to stop thanks to his fiancée Meghan Markle.
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For those who smoke know, it isn’t all that easy to give up smoking but Harry has the motivation in the shape of Miss Markle, it’s either the smoke or the aisle for him as she has given him the ultimatum.
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This has made him cut down to the point that he has now decided to officially quit smoking which is a good thing. He will be setting a good example of he does so.
In the US alone, smoking is the leading cause of preventable death and disease where more than 480,000 people die from tobacco-related deaths every year. The figure above includes those who are afflicted with passive smoke. This means that your smoke kills you and is most probably killing someone else too.
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When it comes to tobacco, there is no exception for royalty. Many royals have been addicted to smoking tobacco. The man blamed for introducing tobacco to Tudor England was Sir Walter Raleigh in 1586 when he bought it from Virginia but it was James the I who was a strong advocator against it.
Harry, of course, is no exception too who has caught the smoking bug for some time now. Hopefully, with Meghan breathing down his back, he will quit the habit entirely and won’t even be seen sneaking behind Buckingham Palace to steal a puff.
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Get this!! With every cigarette you smoke, your life expectancy reduces by 11 minutes. Perhaps Markle thrust that information in his face for all you know it. Harry’s bride to be is an actress with an active and healthy lifestyle and it seems she is all set to make Harry toe the line when it comes to smoking.
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The big wedding is scheduled for mid-May and that will undoubtedly be quite a spectacle. Even before the big day, he won’t be allowed a puff and that’s for sure.
There is another factor that has influenced Harry’s intentions to quit and that is the Palace itself. All residences and building coming under the royal banner do not allow smoking on the premises.
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Regardless of whether Harry has to give up this for Meghan Markle, he should actually give it up for himself because Tobacco kills!! There is no two ways about it. There are several thousand people who are struggling to quit smoking everyday and many have said the book, The Easy Way To Stop Smoking by Allen Carr has helped them a lot.
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There are ways and means to give up smoking but presumably, the best way is to take a walk out of your door, stand in your garden, breathe a huge breath of fresh air with the cigarette in your hand and snuff it out. Tell yourself you’re stopping then and there that very minute. Walk back home without a thought in your head and without turning back. That’s how I did it. Nicotine gum is horrible and coaxing a habit down the stairs is bullcrap.
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