The Facts About Smoking

The website onlineschools.org has a very interesting infographic on the facts about smoking. It’s full of informative knowledge, so we took a few key points and put them in bullet points below. We recommend you take a look at the infographic. The link to the full size image is at the bottom of this post.

• 1.35 billion people smoke world wide.
• 1 out of every 5 people smoke.
• 25% of high school students are smokers.

• 5 million deaths per year in the world that are caused by cigarette smoking.
• 443,000 deaths per year in the US caused by cigarette smoking.
• In the US, smoking kills more than alcohol, car accidents, suicides, AIDS homicide, and illegal drugs combined!
• Annually, in the United States, cigarette smoking costs more than $193 billion.

• Only 5 out of 100 people who attempt to quit smoking succeed.
• More than 4,000 individual compounds have been identified in tobacco.
• Among the identified compounds, 60 are known carcinogens.

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• Smoking and Back Pain

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