- Girls who smoke are more likely to grow excess facial hair.
- Teens who smoke produce twice as much phlegm as teens who
don't.
- Smoking causes "hairy tongues" from the tar.
- Cigarettes contain formaldehyde - the same stuff used to
preserve dead frogs.
- Studies find nonsmoking women to be more physically
attractive.
- Smoking is known to cause impotence in men.
- Teens who smoke break out more.
- The Marlboro man died from emphysema.
- Teen smokers are more likely to gain belly fat.
- Male smokers are more likely to have mutated sperm.
- Puppies can die from eating 2 cigarette butts.
- Cigarette smoke causes asthma in cats.
- Smokers earn 10% less money than non-smokers.
- Over 6,000 companies do not hire smokers
- Kids who smoke 2 or 3 cigarettes a day can get hooked in as
short as two weeks.
- Once they get hooked, the average smoker smokes for
seventeen years.
- A Canadian dies every 12 minutes from tobacco use.
- Smoking is more common among individuals with less education
and lower income.
- Teens who smoke are more likely to catch a cold than people
who don't-and their symptoms will probably be worse and last
longer.
- 72% of high school seniors consider smoking a dirty habit,
and say they'd rather date someone who doesn't smoke.
- Every 3 years, tobacco kills as many Americans as all our
wars combined--over 1,000,000 people.
- Zits last longer for teens who smoke.
- Cigars and spit tobacco are not safe alternatives to
smoking.
- Even short-term use of spit tobacco can cause cracked lips,
white spots, sores, and bleeding in your mouth.
- Operations to remove oral cancers caused by tobacco can
permanently change the shape of your face.
- People who try to quit chewing tobacco have the same
symptoms as people trying to quit cigarettes.
- Spit tobacco diminishes your sense of taste, so food doesn't
taste as good.
- Spit tobacco can cause tooth decay.
- Smoking is the major cause of heart disease.
- Smoking can lead to diseases that make your hair fall out.
- Smokers are 2 times more likely than non-smokers to lose
their teeth.
- Cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide, the same poisonous
gas in car exhaust.
- Smoking a pack a day for a whole year will cost you about
$1200.
- Quitting smoking now can boost your energy and stamina
within just a few days.
- Secondhand smoke fills the air with many of the same poisons
found in the air around toxic waste dumps.
- Smoking can decrease your life expectancy by as much as
15-25 years.
- Carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke can make your skin look
wrinkled and gray.
- A single, large cigar smoked in one hour can contain as much
tobacco as a pack of cigarettes.
- Tobacco is the only legal substance that is lethal when used
as intended by the manufacturer.
- It takes 25 years for a cigarette butt to decompose.
- Cigarettes contain over 4,000 chemicals.
- Worldwide, 5.6 trillion cigarettes are sold each year.
- Secondhand smoke is just as bad for pets as it is for
people.
- Chewing tobacco lessens a person's senses of taste and
smell. As a result, users tend to eat more salty and sweet
foods, both of which are harmful if consumed in excess.
- 44% of teens say they didn't know bidi cigarettes could lead
to cancer.
- One bidi cigarette produces 3 times as much nicotine and
carbon monoxide as a regular cigarette and 5 times as much tar.
- Each year in the U.S. there are more tobacco-related deaths
than deaths from AIDS, car accidents, murders, suicide, drug
overdoses and fires combined.
- Teenagers who smoke use more medications than those who do
not smoke.
- Teenagers who smoke have significantly more trouble sleeping
than those who do not smoke.
- Lung cancer has surpassed breast cancer as the leading cause
of cancer deaths among females .
- Tobacco companies spent more than $12.7 Billion each year on
advertising.† That is 26 times the money NIKE made in 2003.
- Smokers have about 10 times as many wrinkles as non-smokers.
- Nearly 1 in 5 deaths in the U.S. are related to smoking.
- The most recent tobacco use figures for Virginia show that 4
of 5 High School students don't smoke.
- 40% of teenagers who smoke daily have tried to quit and
failed.
- Nicotine is more addictive than so-called "harder" drugs. 1
in 3 users become addicted, compared to 1 in 9 for regular
alcohol users and 1 in 4 for crack or cocaine users.
- Teens who try to quit smoking suffer the same nicotine
withdrawal symptoms as adults who try to quit.
- About 2/3 of teen smokers say they want to quit smoking, and
70% say they would not have started if they could choose again.
- An estimated 1 billion packs of cigarettes are sold to
minors under the age of 18 every year.
- Each cigarette you smoke cuts 11 minutes from your life
expectancy.
- 1 out of 3 young people who become regular smokers will die
of a smoking related disease.
- Young adult smokers are 43% more likely to suffer a stroke
than their non-smoking peers.
- Secondhand smoke may cause thousands of healthy kids to
develop asthma each year.
- Smoking as few as 5 cigarettes a day can reduce teens' lung
function growth, with teenage girls being especially vulnerable.
- Girls and women are significantly more likely than boys to
report feeling dependent on cigarettes and are more likely to
report feeling sad, blue or depressed during attempts to quit.
- Studies rank secondhand smoke as the third leading cause of
preventable death in the U.S., after active smoking and alcohol
use, with 53,000 deaths annually.
- Smokers are admitted to hospitals twice as often as
nonsmokers.
- A recent study showed that in households where both parents
smoke, kids take in a nicotine equivalent of smoking 80
cigarettes a year.
- In 2000, the largest single cause of fatal accidental house
fires was the careless handling and disposal of smoking
materials.
- Smoking can cause gangrene in your leg because it makes you
16 times more likely to have blocked blood vessels in your legs
and feet.
- Smoking costs Virginians $1.92 billion a year in healthcare
costs.
- The tobacco industry spends $528 million each year marketing
its products in Virginia.
- Each year, the tobacco industry contributes over $2.5
Million to political parties and federal candidates.
- If you smoke and you break a bone it can take longer to
heal.
- Every day, 3,000 young people become regular tobacco users
and 4,800 smoke their first cigarette. Tobacco stains teeth and
causes bad breath.
- Tobacco is the most widely grown non-food crop in 120
countries - 10 to 20 million people could be fed if food crop
was grown in its place.
- Burning tobacco is the main source of indoor pollution in
the developed world.
- One whole tree is needed to cure the tobacco for 300
cigarettes.
- Smokers have more back pain than non-smokers.
- By age 11, kids of mothers who smoked more than 10
cigarettes a day during pregnancy are shorter and below average
in reading and math than kids of non-smoking mothers.
- A person who uses 8-10 dips or chews a day receives the same
amount of nicotine as a heavy smoker who smokes 30-40 cigarettes
a day.
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