Facts related to smoking
SOME FACTS ABOUT SMOKING
SOME FACTS ABOUT SMOKING
-In Vietnam, nearly three out of four men smoke.
-In China (the world’s largest cigarette market) the vast majority of its 320 million smokers are male
-More than half of Filipino children between the ages of 7 and 17 now smoke.
-One out of every three cigarettes manufactured today is consumed in China
-The state- owned China National Tobacco Corp. alone produces 1.7 trillion cigarettes per year; three times the total U.S output.
-Smoking is already the NO.1 cause of death in China, and this could lead to kill 2 million people nationwide by the year 2025
-Smoking related diseases are killing 4 million people per year worldwide
-In the next twenty-five year’s 10 million people will die a year due to smoking; of these 7 million deaths will occur in the developing countries.
-More than 400,000 deaths in US each year are from smoking related illnesses
-During a survey done by WHO in 1990 to find out the average cigarette usage per person Greece had the highest number, at 2800 cigarettes per year
-Smoking kills over 120,000 people in UK per year-more than 13 people per hour
-In UAE the number of deaths from tobacco is estimated at well over 500,000 a year.
-Smoking is the major cause for cancer and heart diseases
-There are around 13 million adult smokers in UK
-82% of smokers take up the habit as teenagers
-Every year around 120,000 people are killed because of smoking
-In every 1000 20 year smokers it is estimated that one will be murdered, six will die in motor accidents, 250 will die in middle age from smoking and 250 will die in old age from smoking
-Smoking causes 84% of deaths from cancer and 83% deaths from chronic obstructive lung diseases including bronchitis
-Smoking causes 46,500 deaths from cancer in UK- 3out of 10 cancer deaths
-smoking causes 40,300 deaths in UK per year from all circulatory diseases