Smoking - a common sight in our society. Even though shunned by the puritans as an evil and harmful habit, it acquires a considerable fan following. Let us have a statistical overview of the various aspects of this tantalizing art.
WORLD STATISTICS
Smoking consumes the lungs of almost one-third of the population worldwide.
Out of the 15 billion cigarettes that become the leading cause every day to promote lung cancer, 10 million get sold every minute.
Head west to the Pacific region and you will find one in three cigarettes getting consumed.
The Chinese market is known as one of the most profit-making businesses all over the globe. It is followed by the American, Japanese and British conglomerates.
Eight seconds can be precious if you are smoking for it has been estimated that a person dies every 8 seconds due to use of tobacco
One in 10 adults worldwide die because they smoke because they never paid attention to what that warning on a cigarette packet said. If you live till 2030, be sure you wouldn't want to be one in six.
These are certainly some staggering figures. Shows how largely spread the habit is and also that it kills!
IT'S EFFECT ON YOUTH POPULATION
Teens find it so cool that you will find one in the age group of 13-15 out of 5 smokers spread across age groups.
Advertising does have an influence on teens and in South Asia, movies and superstars have had a big influence.
If you are a chain smoker, then maybe you started it in your teens because it is highly probably you belong to 50% of the chain smokers.
Kids trying to find room for themselves in their peer groups are starting smoking and this number has gone up to 3000 a day in the United States and this figure remains at around 100,000 a day worldwide.
HEALTH EFFECTS OF SMOKING
You lose 11 minutes of your precious life every minute you finish off with your last puff.
One simple cigarette can inhibit your blood supply to your skin for more than an hour.
If you have pale skin and have developed wrinkles during your youth, maybe you smoke because smoking reduces the levels of Vitamin A and inhibits the blood supply to the skin.
Blood pressure can lead to heart attacks and smoking increases blood pressure manifold.
Smokers might be with impotency for all their life for with every smoke, the tendency of erectile dysfunction increases.
It is possible for smokers to lose their sight.
If you thought that radioactive materials were the only source of cancer, then you are absolutely right because even cigarettes have their share of such materials - polonium and lead.
If there is a future world war, maybe cigarettes might be used for they have hydrogen cyanide which was used in the Second World War as a chemical weapon.
More than 90% cases of lung cases reported every year happen because they smoke.
One billion lives have already been claimed by smoking. The question is -
Do you want more?
Smoking kills - Believe it or not!
Lindsay is an anti-smoking advocate and expert. She has helped hundreds of people quit smoking and improve their lifestyle. "One of the best methods I use to help people quit smoking is by using the latest and most advanced smoking alternative devices. It works 90 percent of the time".
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