Smoking Facts

Following are smoking facts that needed to be explore if you are victim of Smoking. After reading these smoking facts, you will come to know where are going! This is non stop train and it is moving so fast. Take some time and read our smoking facts, it is worth reading material;

General Smoking Facts

1- Around 3,000 children smoke their first cigarette every passing day (American Cancer Society, Atlanta).
2- At present, around 22 percent of American teens addicted to smoke (National Cancer Institute, Bethesda).
3- Around 20% of American 15 Yr old teens died before the age of 70 (American Lung Association, New York).
4- Smoking in teen age has several issues in which low stop smoking ratio and high early death rate is frequently reported (Canadian Cancer Society, Toronto).
5- Around 400,000 people died due to diseases directly related to tobacco and nicotine (American Lung Association, New York).
6- In Eight seconds nicotine reaches the brain from cigarette, which is faster than 150% times it takes for injected heroin or cocaine (Nicotine Anonymous World Services, San Francisco).
7- Smoking related deaths rate is more than road accidents by motor vehicles, homicides, AIDS, illegal drugs (American Cancer Society, Atlanta).
8- Nicotine is formed from Tobacco which is obtained from a poisonous plant. These plants contain nicotine as a natural defense, to keep bugs away from eating their leaves (Nicotine Anonymous World Services, San Francisco).
9- Women smoking More than half a pack a day may cause them infertility or irregular menstrual cycles (Canadian Cancer Society, Toronto).
10- Smoking during Pregnancy passes chemicals to their unborn children through the placenta (National Cancer Institute, Bethesda).
11- While smoking in pregnant have higher risks of giving birth to babies with abnormalities (National Cancer Institute, Bethesda).
12- During a study by the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion discovered that cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer (American Cancer Society, Atlanta).

Stop Smoking Facts

1- Blood pressure drops to normal in 20 minutes (American Heart Association, Dallas).
2- Carbon monoxide level in the blood drops to normal in 8 hours  (American Heart Association, Dallas).
3- Nerve endings and the senses of smell and taste both started growing again in 48 hours (American Heart Association, Dallas).
4- Chances of dying from lung cancer decreases dropped by 50% in five years (American Cancer Society, Atlanta).
5- Risk of heart disease is equal to that of a nonsmoker in 15 years (American Heart Association, Dallas).
6- Risk of dying from lung cancer is slightly higher than a non smoker in 15 years (National Cancer Institute, Bethesda).
7- Smoking snatched seven years of a human life and more precisely every cigarette takes five and half minute of your life (Nicotine Anonymous World Services, San Francisco).
8- Stop Smoking at age 60s increase the chances of longer life as compared to those who carry on smoking (American Lung Association, New York).
9- The chances of serious diseases like esophagus, mouth, pancreas, bladder, and cervix is significantly dropped by 50% if you quit smoking (American Heart Association, Dallas).