Tobacco: Fun Facts

"My BODY, My TOBACCO"

Fact of the Century: Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body. Smoking causes many diseases and reduces the health of smokers in general!

Going Back to the Basics: 

 NO FORM OF TOBACCO IS SAFE!!! NOT CIGARETTES, NOT CIGARS, NOT CHEWING TOBACCO OR PIPES. THEY ARE ALL DANGEROUS BECAUSE THEY ALL CONTAIN CHEMICALS THAT KILL!!!!

 

SMOKING CAN CAUSE:

* Death

* Increased Health Risk

* Cardiovascular Disease

* Cancer

* Others:infertility,preterm delivery,stillbirth,low birth weight, and sudden infant death syndrome

TOBACCO FACTS:

• Every eight seconds someone in the world dies from a tobacco related illness/disease.
• Smoking is the #1 preventable cause of premature death in the United States.
• On average, smokers die nearly seven years earlier than nonsmokers. Smoking is responsible for one out of five American deaths.
• In the U.S., smoking kills more people than cocaine, heoine, alcohol, fire automobile accidents, homicideds, suicides,a nd AIDS combined.
• Reports of the Surgeon General conclude that smoking cigarettes causes heart disease, lung and esophageal cancer, and chronic lung disease. Cigarette smoking contributes to cancer of the bladder, pancreas, and kidney. Consequences of using smokeless tobacco include cancer of the gum, mouth, pharynx, larynx, and esophagus.
• Men who smoke increase their risk of death from lung cancer by more than 22 times and from bronchitis and emphysema by nearly 10 times. Women who smoke increase their risk of dying from lung cancer by nearly 12 times and the risk of dying from bronchitis and emphysema by more than 10 times. Smoking tiples the risk of dying from heart disease among middle-aged men and women.
• About 10 million people in the United States have died from causes attributed to smoking (including heart disease, emphysema, and other respiratory disease) since the first Surgeon General's report on smoking and health in 1964--2 million of these deaths were the result of lung cancer alone.
• 90% of adult smokers are addicted to tobacco before they reach the age of 18; 50% before the age of 14; currently the average age of initiation to tobacco is age 11.
• 48 million adults smoke in the U.S. (22.9% of the population, overall) 33%of youth currently smoke.
• According to the CDC survey, there are 1,136,900 smokers in New Jersey (19.5% of the state population). 38% of youths in grades 9-12 smoke in New Jersey.