Recent surveys suggest that about 80,000 to 100,000 kids smoke everyday. It has been found that about one quarter of children presently residing in the Western Pacific Region will die of smoking in the coming years. The global smoking statistics presented by the World Health Organization are quite daunting as they clearly depict the health of the future generation. The surveys suggest that about one third of the male adult population present globally smokes cigarettes.
Smoking related diseases kill about one in ten adults all over the world. To be more precise smoking related diseases cause four million deaths each year and it has been predicted that if these trends continue, smoking will kill about six billion people all over the world. If the number of smokers keep increasing like this, the number of people died of smoking will be quite less than the ones who are facing serious health ailments due to smoking.
The surveys suggest that the number of smokers among the Americans have failed in the past three decades falling to about 23% in adults. About 15 cigarettes are sold everyday, which comes to about 10 million cigarettes every day. About 12 times more British people died of smoking as compared to the number of those who died of Second World War. Cigarettes are at present causing more than one in five American deaths and these numbers have now made the people bring about changes in their life habits.
Among the youngsters, about one in five smokers die every few minutes. Evidences have shown that around 50% of those who start smoking at teen age years ago go on to smoke for 15 to 20 years. Talking of the young people died of smoking, about quarter of a youth alive all over the world are going to add to the numbers in a quick span of time.
Get more tips on quit smoking at Health Online Review [http://quittingsmokinghelp.net/] and How to Quit Smoking
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Robby_Agus_Widjaya
