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Facts About Smoking

We have some interesting facts about smoking that we think you should be aware of, if you are a smoker. If you are not a smoker and know someone close to you who is, then these facts about smoking should pique your interest as well.

Did you know that:

The tobacco industry is one of the biggest in the world market. It is worth more than $400 billion annually. Up to 1 trillion cigarettes are sold all over the world every year.

The annual health care spending for smoking-related illnesses for medical treatment in the United States is about $150 billion.

Several illnesses and deaths are preventable when preventative steps are undertaken. Smoking has been identified as being responsible for a lot of preventable illnesses and deaths all over the world.

Smoking-related deaths in the United States amount to 440,000 every year.

In the United Kingdom, smoking-related deaths are in the region of 106,000 every year.

Most of the smoking-related deaths are due to cancers, chronic obstructive airway diseases and heart disease.

Some cigarette brands are increasing the nicotine content of their cigarettes as found out by the Massachusetts Health department and Havard University.

Some brands of cigarettes from the United States like Marlboro, Camel, Kent now control about two-thirds of the world tobacco market share.

The Center for Disease Control in its 2004 study found cigarettes to contain about 4800 different chemicals. Out of these chemicals, 69 of them have the potential to cause cancer.

Tobacco is a South American discovery first started by Brazilians who rolled up tobacco in leaves for the purpose of smoking it.

Tobacco was introduced to Europe by who else, Christopher Columbus, the renowned explorer. He took it to Spain and it became a major commodity for trading both in Spain and the American colonies.

Soldiers who fought in the two world wars were given cigarettes as food supplements.

Most countries now have a minimum age for buying tobacco of 18 years, except Japan whose minimum age is 20.

The smoking ban was introduced to protect non-smokers from passive smoking but businesses like bars, night clubs have complained that the smoking ban is negatively affecting their bottom-line.

Up to 20% of American teen agers smoke cigarettes and the habit is formed around about the age 16.

It is estimated that about 3000 teenagers pick up the smoking habit every day in the United States.
Out of these new smokers, 1 in 3 will die a smoking-related death later in life.

Teenagers who smoke cigarettes are more likely to pick up other addictive habits like smoking marijuana, use cocaine and abuse alcohol.

9 out of 10 adult smokers started smoking in their teenage years.

Children are 13 times more likely to become smokers if their peers are smokers compared friends of non-smokers.

Yet more facts about smoking:

Smoking reduces blood flow to your skin such that it encourages development of wrinkles as the skin loses elasticity but this reversible when you give up smoking.

Nicotine is absorbed very quickly and gets to the brain following a smoke inhalation in less than a minute and spreads all over the body including breast milk.

Pregnant women who smoke must realize that their baby’s growth will be affected as they are more likely to have small babies. Oxygen supply to the baby is also compromised in preference to carbon monoxide at the placental level.

Spontaneous miscarriages, stillbirths and premature deliveries are more common in women who smoke whilst pregnant.

If you smoke cigars, then you are increasing your risk of these cancers significantly – cancer of the mouth, throat and larynx.

The cancer-inducing chemical components in both cigarettes and cigars have been found to be similar.

Up to 3000 deaths have been linked to passive smoking each year in the United States.

If you are a non-smoker but experience secondhand smoking persistently, there is research evidence to suggest your risk of coronary heart disease is increased by more than 20%.

So there we are, you now know some hard facts about smoking which hopefully should inform a decision to continue the habit or stop it altogether starting today.

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