1. Tobacco contains more than four thousand different chemicals, two hundred of which are considered harmful and poisonous, for example: arsenic, DDT, carbon monoxide, and formaldegide.
2. Cigarettes kill more people in two days than cocaine and crack kill in a year.
3. Secondary smoking is no less harmful. If you do not smoke, it does not mean that you are safe. Tobacco kills more non-smokers each year than illicit drugs, teenage drinking, and AIDS combined together.
4. Smoking increases the risk of brain blood clotting and stroke by 300 percent.
5. Tobacco products cost the American nation more than $100 billion each year.
6. Cigarettes are considered to be even more addictive than hard drugs, such as heroin. The reason for that is a very fast absorbency of nicotine: taking smoke into the lungs immediately produces a profound drug effect in the brain and in other parts of the nervous system. Some researches believe that nicotine is the most addictive substance in the world. Some teens are hooked after only one cigarette.
7. One out of every six deaths in the United States is tobacco-related.
8. Right now, tobacco corporations are aggressively targeting teenage girls of the industrialized world and women of the Third World countries as their number one market for cigarettes. The group of adolescent girls has been found to have the lowest self-esteem and is therefore the most likely to start smoking after being exposed to “cool” advertising campaigns and peer pressure. Tobacco producers shamelessly exploit girls’ vulnerability and their desire to be thin. They are also taking a full advantage of a less tight anti-tobacco legislation in the developing countries.
9. Among white high-school students, more than 40 percent smoke or use other tobacco products. Students of other ethnic groups smoke much more.
10. Tobacco companies know than once hooked, females are less likely to quit than males.
11. More doctors and nurses start smoking during training than any other profession, due to a high level of stress associated with the medical profession.
12. Nicotine is number one culprit of many of the diseases of the modern age, including lung and colon cancer, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and stomach ulcer.a
2. Cigarettes kill more people in two days than cocaine and crack kill in a year.
3. Secondary smoking is no less harmful. If you do not smoke, it does not mean that you are safe. Tobacco kills more non-smokers each year than illicit drugs, teenage drinking, and AIDS combined together.
4. Smoking increases the risk of brain blood clotting and stroke by 300 percent.
5. Tobacco products cost the American nation more than $100 billion each year.
6. Cigarettes are considered to be even more addictive than hard drugs, such as heroin. The reason for that is a very fast absorbency of nicotine: taking smoke into the lungs immediately produces a profound drug effect in the brain and in other parts of the nervous system. Some researches believe that nicotine is the most addictive substance in the world. Some teens are hooked after only one cigarette.
7. One out of every six deaths in the United States is tobacco-related.
8. Right now, tobacco corporations are aggressively targeting teenage girls of the industrialized world and women of the Third World countries as their number one market for cigarettes. The group of adolescent girls has been found to have the lowest self-esteem and is therefore the most likely to start smoking after being exposed to “cool” advertising campaigns and peer pressure. Tobacco producers shamelessly exploit girls’ vulnerability and their desire to be thin. They are also taking a full advantage of a less tight anti-tobacco legislation in the developing countries.
9. Among white high-school students, more than 40 percent smoke or use other tobacco products. Students of other ethnic groups smoke much more.
10. Tobacco companies know than once hooked, females are less likely to quit than males.
11. More doctors and nurses start smoking during training than any other profession, due to a high level of stress associated with the medical profession.
12. Nicotine is number one culprit of many of the diseases of the modern age, including lung and colon cancer, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and stomach ulcer.a
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