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Smoking Facts
- Each year tobacco use kills over 430,000 American smokers.
Worldwide, about 3 million people die from tobacco use.
- Smoking kills more people than AIDS, alcohol, drug abuse, car
and plane crashes, murders, suicides and fires combined.
- More than 3,000 smokers start smoking everyday.
- 90% of smokers start before the age of 18.
- 90% of teens say they’ll stop smoking after high school but 67%
are still smoking 5 years later.
- 53,000 non-smoking Americans are killed each year by exposure to
secondhand smoke.
- Smoking causes lung cancer, cancers of the lip, throat, larynx,
bladder, pancreas, stomach, kidney and cervix, heart disease and
stroke, emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
- Nicotine is more addictive than heroin, cocaine and alcohol.
- A "hit" of nicotine from a cigarette reaches the brain in seven
seconds, twice as fast as heroin injected into the vein.
- There are over 4,000 chemical compounds in cigarette smoke (over
200 are known poisons and over 40 are carcinogenic)
- It only costs the tobacco industry 5¢ to make a pack of
cigarettes.
http://www.westchestergov.com/health/TobaccoTeenFacts.htm
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