| Everyone knows that the use of tobacco and drugs is | | | | Below is a list of facts that have occurred due to |
| not a healthy choice for any situation. Unfortunately, | | | | smoking: |
| many people still continue to use them. It is a sad but | | | | * One in every ten people die because of a disease |
| true condition that many people who use tobacco | | | | related to smoking |
| pass away at a much earlier age due to smoking. | | | | * One in every three adults smoke a cigarette daily |
| Over the last decade, between the years of | | | | * Ten million cigarettes are purchased in stores every |
| 1999-2009 the deaths due to smoking have increased | | | | minute throughout the world |
| drastically. Many people admit that they try smoking to | | | | * One person dies every ten seconds from smoking |
| see what it's like or to fit in with a group. Most have | | | | * One in every five children try a cigarette and |
| seen advertisements for purchasing tobacco and get | | | | become addicted to them for years on end |
| the idea from billboards or commercials. The | | | | * Everyday about ninety thousand children try a |
| commercials try to get smokers to believe that they | | | | cigarette (luckily some don't continue) |
| will fit in better with a group or that smoking will reduce | | | | * Second hand smoke may be just as dangerous to |
| stress. Also, once you start to smoke it is very difficult | | | | children as smoking a cigarette themselves |
| to quit. It has been said that out of the 45 million people | | | | * The highest percentage of people that smoke are |
| who smoke worldwide, 70% of the people want to | | | | between the ages of 25 and 44 |
| quit. That is over half of the smokers who are doing | | | | According to the New England Journal of Medicine, |
| something that in their heart they really don't want to | | | | deaths from coronary heart disease in adults ages |
| do. | | | | 25-84 living in the U.S., dropped from 542.9-266.8 per |
| Some adults do not see the harm in smoking around | | | | 100,000 from 1980-2000. Smoking, among other |
| their children since they are not the ones that are | | | | factors, contributes to coronary heart disease. |
| puffing the cigarette. However, this myth is very | | | | According to the American Cancer Society, there was |
| wrong. Second hand smoke increases the chance of | | | | a 16% decrease in lung cancer deaths among men |
| getting a heart disease by up to 30%. Children can | | | | from 1991-2003. There was a 10% cancer rise in |
| also develop severe bronchitis as well as asthma. | | | | women simply because rates of women who smoked |
| Between this past decade, over 500,000 deaths and | | | | dropped more recently than those of men. |
| illnesses have occurred due to smoking the leading | | | | Do not continue or start to smoke. Statistics have |
| illness being Lung Cancer. Others include Ischemic | | | | shown that your life is shortened with each and every |
| Heart Disease, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary | | | | cigarette you inhale. Please think of not only your own |
| Disease, Stroke, different types of cancer as well as | | | | health and safety but your kids and the people you |
| others | | | | love around you as well. |