Thread: Cigarettes Smoking Facts and Statistics

Cigarettes Smoking Facts and Statistics

Cigarettes are very harmful to your health. The nicotine in cigarettes is just as addictive as heroine, and the additives, compliments of your friendly tobacco companies, are carcinogens (cause cancer). So, the government wants to cut down on health care costs? Lets start with shutting down the tobacco companies and ban the use and sale of cigarettes!

The below list of cigarette facts are published by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Cigarette Facts:

Cigarettes and other forms of tobacco are addictive.

Nicotine is the drug in tobacco that causes addiction.

The pharmacologic and behavioural processes that determine tobacco addiction are similar to those that determine addiction to drugs such as heroin and cocaine.

Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 different chemicals. At least 50 are known carcinogens (cause cancer in humans) and many are poisonous.

Cigrette smoking causes heart attacks, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema, and cancer (particularly lung cancer, cancers of the larynx and mouth, and pancreatic cancer). See smoking diseases.
Cigarette smokers generally weigh less (approximately 7 lb less on average) than non-smokers.

Stress increases cigarette consumption among smokers.



Smoking-material (lighted tobacco products including cigarettes) fires result in more deaths than any other type of residential fire.

One out of four fatal victims of smoking-material fires is not the smoker whose cigarette started the fire.

Tobacco dependence and nicotine addiction can be treated successfully.

The World Health Organization estimates that tobacco 100 million deaths over the course of the 20th century.

The death toll is projected to reach more than 8 million by 2030 if current trends continue.

Almost half of the world's children breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke, which worsens their asthma conditions and causes dangerous diseases.

The International Labour Organization estimates that at least 200 000 workers die every year due to exposure to smoke at work.

Tobacco kills up to half of its regular users.

On average 29% of people around the world smoke tobacco.

Tobacco caused 100 million deaths in the 20th century. If current trends continue, there could be up to one billion deaths in the 21st century.

An estimated 700 million children, or almost half of the world's children, breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke, particularly at home.

Now here is where I have to jump on my soapbox. If it is one thing that gets under my skin is smoking around the children. I have seen children in the company of adults who were smoking in the car, and the poor kid had some part of his shirt pulled up around his face to avoid the toxic smoke an adult was blowing in his face. As far as I am concerned, this is child abuse.

Children who are exposed to cigarette smoke have more health issues than children who are not. They have more upper respiratory infections, such as colds and ear aches, as well as asthma. If you are an adult who smokes around your children, I am talking to you. Stop it!

by Barb Hicks, RN/LMT

Source: http://www.clivir.com/lessons/show/c...tatistics.html

Now if only the healthcare industry would get behind the promotion of e-cigarettes as an effective means of smoking cessation, that would be a blessing. It's been the only solution for myself and many others after countless attempts with the prescribed methods of cessation, and there's not much being done to effectively study them by the healthcare community (I say this as a member of that same community). Now I suppose that's a tiny bit of my soapbox but I'll stop now.

im not saying cigs arent addictive but ive been smoking 1 a day for a while now with no need for more and no problem stopping. i cant help but think that a large part of addiction is psychological

F-ing disgusting filth. So glad I never got into smoking.

I'm 27, and still has never smoked.
Smokers should quit; 2nd-hand smoke is not good for us too!

To Quit Smoking requires Self Discipline and Self Sacrifice. I tried to quit smoking but after 2 months, I smoke again...

Below is the picture of a cigarette made of

Originally Posted by TSILATNEM

To Quit Smoking requires Self Discipline and Self Sacrifice. I tried to quit smoking but after 2 months, I smoke again...

The bottom line is you won't quit until you want to quit. I started smoking when I was 16 and quit 3 years ago when I was 27, that's 11 years... I did try to quit a few times but my lifestyle of partying, going out and drinking kinda prevented me from totally quitting, I managed to quit for a whole year once, only to get dragged back into it.

I finally quit for good 3 years ago when I got married and realized cigarettes would eventually kill me so I decided to quit while I was ahead. It's a filthy habit but what people don't realize is once you start smoking and do it often you will find yourself enjoying it and its hard to quit anything you enjoy unless you have a strong motive for it.

Anyway I'm just glad I was able to snap out of it because it would have killed me. But having smoked for 11 years it might still do, I guess we'll see.

If you plan to quit, you should go COLD TURKEY. All or nothing.

Don't think of yourself only.
Think of others who are also affected by your smoking.

Originally Posted by WLF11

The bottom line is you won't quit until you want to quit. I started smoking when I was 16 and quit 3 years ago when I was 27, that's 11 years...

Comparing the two examples shows what many scientists believe today and where I agree with them.

It's only to a lesser extent the drug itself (nicotine in this case) that leads people into an addiction, but it's the human who is susceptibleto this drug.

In the mind a thought grows, that they can't live without the cigarette anymore. Just like a placebo pill can heal people simply by their imagination.

I don't want to downplay the physical addictive character of these substances in any way. I just believe that the mind plays a major part here aswell.