Facts of Smoking

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Girls who smoke are 7 times more likely to grow facial hair.

Smoking can make you look old when you're still young.

Every day, 3,000 young people become regular tobacco users and 4,800 smoke their

first cigarette Kids who start smoking are more likely to get lower grades in

school

Once they get hooked, the average smoker smokes for seventeen years.

Operations to remove oral cancers caused by tobacco can permanently change the

shape of your face. Cigarettes contain formaldehyde - the same stuff used to

preserve dead frogs. Secondhand smoke fills the air with many of the same

poisons found in the air around toxic waste dumps.

Smoking can decrease your life expectancy by as much as 15-25 years.

Carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke can make your skin look wrinkled and gray.

You might think smoking calms your nerves, but actually it can increase your anxiety.

Among high school seniors who smoke 1 - 5 cigarettes a day, 70% will still be

smoking-and risking their health-5 years later.

It takes 25 years for a cigarette butt to decompose.

Cigarettes contain over 4,000 chemicals.

Worldwide, 600 trillion cigarettes are sold each year.

Studies show that smokers are more likely than non-smokers to go deaf as they grow older.

Each year in the U.S. there are more tobacco-related deaths than deaths from

AIDS, car accidents, murders, suicide, drug overdoses and fires combined.

Lung cancer has surpassed breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer deaths among females .

Tobacco companies spent more than $8 billion on advertising in 1999. That's 14

times the money NIKE made in 2000.

Every 3 years, tobacco kills as many Americans as all our wars combined--over

1,000,000 people 40% of teenagers who smoke daily have tried to quit and

failed.

Each cigarette you smoke cuts 11 minutes from your life expectancy 1 out of 3

young people who become regular smokers will die of a smoking related disease.

Girls and women are significantly more likely than boys to report feeling

dependent on cigarettes and are more likely to report feeling sad, blue or

depressed during attempts to quit.

Each year, the tobacco industry contributes over $5 million to political parties

and federal candidates.

Studies find nonsmoking women to be more physically attractive.

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