Some people want to know how bad smoking is for your health. For those who want to know, here are a few facts. After you review these facts, focus on the benefits of quitting.
ο Approximately 1/3 of the male adult global population smokes. ο Smoking related-diseases (cancers, emphysema, second-hand smoke, etc.) kill one in 10 adults globally, or cause four million deaths each year. ο By 2030, if current trends continue, smoking will kill one out of every six people. ο Every eight seconds, someone dies from tobacco use. ο Smoking is on the rise in the developing world but falling in developed nations. Among Americans, smoking rates shrunk by nearly half in three decades (from the mid-1960s to mid-1990s), falling to 23% of adults by 1997. In the developing world, tobacco consumption is rising by 3.4% per year. ο About 15 billion cigarettes are sold daily - or 10 million every minute. ο About 12 times more British people have died from smoking than from World War II. ο Cigarettes cause more than one in five American deaths. ο The tobacco market is controlled by just a few corporations - mostly American, British and Japanese multinational conglomerates.
