vuyvidz: Facts of Smoking Which You Should Know

Tuesday 20 December 2016

Who smokes?

Each day, more than 3,200 people under 18 smoke their first cigarette, and approximately 2,100 youth and young adults become daily smokers.
9 out of 10 smokers start before the age of 18, and 98% start smoking by age 26.
1 in 5 adults and teenagers smoke.
In 2011, an estimated 19% of U.S. adults were cigarette smokers.
Approximately 18% of high school students smoke cigarettes.
In 2011, nearly 18% of high school boys were current cigar users.
From 1964 to 2014, the proportion of adult smokers declined from 42.0% to 18.0%.

More than 16 million people already have at least one disease from smoking.
More than 20 million Americans have died because of smoking since 1964, including approximately 2.5 million deaths due to exposure to secondhand smoke.
8.6 million people live with a serious illness caused by smoking.
On average, smokers die (13 to 14 years) earlier than nonsmokers.

Smoking causes many other types of cancer, including cancers of the throat, mouth, nasal cavity, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, kidney, bladder, and cervix, as well as acute myeloid leukemia.
Men with prostate cancer who smoke may be more likely to die from the disease than nonsmokers.

5.6 million children alive today will ultimately die early from smoking. That is equal to 1 child out of every 13 alive in the U.S today.