Facts related to smoking
Facts related to smoking
-Smoking not only harm’s the person who smokes but also the family member’s, the coworker’s and other’s who breath the smoker’s cigarette smoke, this is called second hand smoking
-45,000 African American deaths occur each year in US due to smoking (CBCF health Organisation, 2004)
-1.2 million death’s occur in Europe because of smoking (The European
Heart network, 2000)
-smoking causes 400,000 million deaths in US per year (Mayo clinic)
-An average smoker’s life expectancy is reduced by 12 years
-Death rates in USA caused by smoking 440,000 per year,36,666 per month,8461 per week,1205 per day,50 per hour,0 per minute and 0 per second
-smoking is also linked to serious problems such as asthma and osteoporosis.
-All forms of tobacco cause cancer
-cigarette contains over 3000 chemicals including Acetone (nail polish remover) Hydrogen cyanide (rat poison) Nicotine (cockroach killer) Hydrazine (rocket fuel) and Formaldehyde (embalming fluid).
-In Australia there are 19000 tobacco caused deaths each year .That’s 52 per day
-Every month Australian tobacco companies lose 12,000 customers.
About 12,500 quit and 16000 die of diseases caused by smoking
-A twenty- a- day smoker, aged who had started smoking since the age of 16 has already breathed a kilo of tar in his lungs.
-During the 20nth century smoking killed 100 million people world wide
-Smoking kills one person every 10 seconds
-In 1996 more than 336000 Australian school children smoked a total of more than 370 million cigarettes
-Half of all smoking related deaths occur between the ages of 35 and 69