Smoking Facts

There are so many different smoking facts gathered about so many aspects of smoking that it could boggle the mind. Did you know that one cigarette takes 11 minutes off your life and that if you smoke 25 cigarettes a day you are about 25 times more apt to die from cancer? These two scary facts are not even a drop in the bucket of things that cigarettes can do to your health. There are thousands of toxic chemicals and carcinogens in the smoke from a cigarette. These toxins:

· Increase the chances of all kinds of cancer like leukemia, bladder cancer, lung cancer, kidney cancer, cervical cancer, stomach cancer, esophageal cancer, and more.
· Drastically increase the chances of a stroke
· Cause hardening of the arteries that is a direct link to heart disease.

From a health perspective there are dozens of frightening statistics about smoking. These are just a few.

· Diseases caused by smoking claim four million people every year.
· One-half of people who smoke for a long time will die from some smoking-related illness.
· Lung cancer kills more people than any other cancer.
· Smoking kills more people every year that AIDS, drug and alcohol abuse, homicides, car accidents, and suicide combined.
· People who smoke generally die about 10 or 12 years younger than those who don’t.
· Approximately 35,000 non-smokers are killed each year from heart disease connected to second-hand smoke.
· Seventeen thousand children under the age of five are admitted to the hospital annually because of the effects of second-hand smoke.
· Over $160 billion is spent each year on medical costs for smoking conditions and lost productivity from smoke-related illnesses.

Here’s a big fact that cannot be ignored. Smoking is the most preventable cause of death in the world.

It may seem that over the last several years more and more people have been getting smart and quitting. But it also seems that for everyone that quits, another person starts smoking. Far too often these new smokers are teenagers. The tobacco industry is enormous:

· They pay about $5.7 million a year for advertising.
· Approximately 15 billion cigarettes are sold every day, which comes out to be 273.75 packs a year.

These facts listed above are only a short list of smoking statistics. Add in the effects of smoking on pregnant women, the fact that women are more adversely affected by smoking than men, and the list would never end.

• Stop Smoking – Why Quit Smoking?
• Quitting Smoking Timeline
• The Reasons To Quit Smoking
• What Happens When You Quit Smoking
• What Happens when You Stop Smoking

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