Smoking Facts

• Smoking will kill you. Every year tobacoo kills four times as many people as all the other drugs, suicides, murders, accidents, and AIDS put together.
• Every thirteen seconds a person dies from some kind of tobacco-related illness.
• Almost 418,000 people die from smoking each year, while only 1,000 die from cocaine use.
• Smoking is the one major killer in the U.S. that can easily be stopped.
• Around 3,000 youth start smoking every day. During their lifetime, 30 of those will be murdered, 60 will die from accidents, and around 750 will die due to a smoking-related illness.
• The earlier you start smoking, the more likely you'll be to get cancer.
• Smoking will make you ugly and smelly. Forget the myths about how smoking makes you "look cool".
• When you smoke, the odor will make your hair, breath, clothes and entire body smell.
• Smoking will turn your teeth and fingers yellow, and give you wrinkles. It will make you do other stupid things
• Smokers are about 14 times more likely to use alcohol.
• Smokers are about 100 times more likely to use marijuana.
• Smokers are about 32 times more likely to use cocaine.
• It is proven the smoking hurts your physical endurance and performance.
• Smokers are 2.4 times more likely to report poor overall health than their nonsmoking peers.
• The heart rate of young smokers is about 2 to 3 beats more than those of non smokers.