Fact About Smoking
- For every person that dies from a smoking-related disease, there are 20 more who suffer from at least one serious illness associated with smoking.
- Smoking is the cause of 1 in 10 deaths in the india annually. And tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death.
- Every day over 3,800 teens, 18 and younger, smoke their first cigarette. While, 1,000 teens start smoking on a daily basis.
- A single cigarette contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer. Second hand smoke contains over 7,000 chemicals, including 70 cancer-causing chemicals. 5. In 2013, states will collect $25.7 billion from tobacco taxes and legal settlements but are spending less than 2 percent of that on tobacco control programs.
- Smoking increases your risk of getting lung diseases like pneumonia, emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
- Every year, there are approximately 46,000 deaths from heart disease in people who are current non-smokers.
- About 8.6 million people in the U.S. have at least one serious illness thats caused by smoking.
- The shifting of the earths plates in the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, 2004 caused a rupture more than 600 miles long, displacing the seafloor above the rupture by perhaps 10 yards horizontally and several yards vertically. As a result, trillions of tons of rock were moved along hundreds of miles and caused the planet to shudder with the largest magnitude earthquake in 40 years.
- Every day over 3,800 teens, 18 and younger, smoke their first cigarette. While, 1,000 teens start smoking on a daily basis.
