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Please list as many as possible. its on a poster i am going to be using at a health fair. and im having trouble thinking of interesting facts. please , these facts need to be true and not things that have just been said between people
The numbers are in and they are not good. You have to want to quit smoking in order to finally kick the habit and overcome your nicotine addiction, and sometimes it takes some scary facts like these to help you get started. Here are 10 interesting facts about smoking:
* About 1 out of every 5 deaths in the US can be attributed to tobacco products.
* Every eight seconds, someone in the world dies due to tobacco.
* Cigarette smoke contains 11 chemical compounds that are known to cause cancer.
* 1 out of 3 smokers are estimated to eventually die from a tobacco-related disease.
* Over 50,000 people a year die from secondhand smoke in the US alone.
* In the 1980s, tobacco companies started working on making fire-safe cigarettes. Ones that would be less likely to ignite furniture or clothing and cause fires. As of 2002, only one of the hundreds of U.S. cigarette brands uses fire safe technology, and cigarettes are still the number one cause of fire-related deaths.
* In the US, smoking causes about 445 new cases of lung cancer every day.
* Tobacco kills more Americans than AIDS, drugs, homicides, fires, and auto accidents combined.
* Cigarette smoke contains benzene, carbon monoxide, arsenic, hydrogen cyanide and polonium 210.
Exposure to secondhand smoke has been strongly linked with a higher incidence of asthma, respiratory infections (including pneumonia), and ear infections in children. Children exposed to passive smoke are hospitalized more frequently, and have a higher chance of dying from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Food service workers appear to be 50% more likely than the general population to develop lung cancer, largely because many of them are exposed to secondhand smoke on the job.
Besides causing disease, secondhand smoke also exacerates a number of pre-existing health conditions, including some allergies, asthma, bronchitis, other respiratory ailments, and heart disease.
Cigarette smoke contains over 4,700 chemicals, over 200 poisons, and over 50 human carcinogens. The poisons in cigarette smoke include carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, and methyl isocyanate. The carcinogens in cigarette smoke include benzo[a]pyrene and NNK, which cause lung cancer; nitrosamines, which cause cancer of the lung, respiratory system, and other organs; aromatic amines, which cause bladder and breast cancer; formaldehyde, which causes nasal cancer; and benzene, which causes leukemia. The carcinogen NNK has been found in nonsmokers who have been exposed to secondhand smoke.
Each year environmental tobacco smoke kills approximately 53,000 Americans, the same number of Americans killed in the Vietnam War. (Action on Smoking and Health, Special Report, Involuntary Smoking: The Factual Basis for Action, 1993)
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i need wierd facts about smoking because i need to make a broushore for bio
thankx alot fo ur help
It will kill you!
im doing some research on smoking and i would like information on worldwide statistics on smoking about how much money people are spending on them and if you know anything else about smoking would you please let me know
Thanks
Here are the best articles about smoking:
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Nicotine Withdrawal
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Quit Smoking
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Smoking and Weight
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Fight Cravings
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Smoking While Pregnant
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Lung Cancer and Smoking
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Heart Disease and Smoking
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Asthma and Smoking
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Smoking and Your Life Span
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Helping Someone Quit
You can find them in the website below:
During the 20th century, smoking ed about 100 million people worldwide.
Tobacco s one person every ten seconds and is set to ten million people a year by 2025. — World Health Organization
Half of all smoking-related s occur between the ages of 35 and 69, which translates into an average of roughly 23 years of life lost.
Every 30 seconds someone somewhere in the world s of lung cancer. It is the ninth most common cause of in the world and the most common form of cancer. Each year 1.25 million people from it. — Roy Castle International Centre for Lung Cancer Research
Insurance companies have estimated that smoking a single cigarette lowers one’s life expectancy by 10.7 minutes. That means in smoking a packet of 20 life is shortened by more than three and a half hours.
Each year more Americans from smoking-related diseases than from abuse, car accidents and combined.
390,000 Americans each year from the effects of cigarette smoking. Smoking has been responsible for 16% (or 1 in 6) of all s in the U.S. each year.
Cigarettes are the most heavily advertised products in the U.S. Tobacco companies spend over $5,000 per minute on advertising and promotion of tobacco products. Smoking costs the nation $65 billion per year in health-care costs and lost productivity — that’s $262 per American per year.
About 40 percent of America’s 50 million smokers will try to kick the habit at least once this year. Fewer than one in ten will succeed. — Center for Disease Control and Prevention
In 1997 cigarette smoking accounted for an estimated 117,400 of the total 628,000 s in the United Kingdom. Cigarette smoking is thus responsible for approximately one in every five s in Britain. This annual mortality translates into an average of 2,300 people ed by smoking every week, 320 every day, and 13 every hour. — Royal College of Physicians
Road accidents, and drugs and solvents all . Smoking s five times more people before their time than all these other causes of put together. Smoking is the biggest single cause of preventable disease and premature in this country. — Smoking and Your Child, issued by Britain’s Department of Health
The humble cigarette is responsible for a dozen times more s in the UK in the past 40 years than British casualties from World War II — over five million. This is not a cold statistic but a human tragedy. — Sir George Albert, Royal College of Physicians
In 1996 more than 336,000 Australian schoolchildren smoked a total of more than 370 million cigarettes.
Pregnant women who smoke have higher rates of miscarriage, , premature birth, and complications of pregnancy. More of their babies soon after birth from crib than the newborns of nonsmoking mothers.
Smoking harms not just the smoker, but also family members, coworkers, and others who breathe the smoker’s cigarette smoke, called second-hand smoke.
Quit smoking today!
