Smoking

Worldwide:

пЃÑ" Smoking causes 4.8 million deaths each year.

пЃÑ" By the year 2020, smoking will kill about 10 million people annually.

пЃÑ" In the 20th century there were 100 million deaths

пЃÑ" In the 21st century, there will be 1 billion deaths if current trends continue.

U.S Statistics:

 Smoking kills 36,000 people every month. (That’s more lives thrown away than there are public garbage cans in NYC!!)

пЃЋ Smoking kills over 20 times more people than murder.

пЃЋ Smoking causes more annual deaths than HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined.

пЃЋ 440,000 people die each year from smoking-related diseases.

пЃЋ 50,000 people die every year from secondhand smoke-related disease.

пЃЋ Smoking accounts for 1 in every 5 deaths in the U.S.

пЃЋ 8.6 million people have at least one serious illness caused by smoking.

пЃЋ That means that for every person who dies of a smoking-related disease, there are 20 more people who suffer from at least one serious illness associated with smoking.

Children in the U.S.:

 In just one year…

cigarettes leave 31,000 kids fatherless.

cigarettes leave 12,000 kids motherless -That’s 33 mothers a day!

пЃЊ Smoking during pregnancy results in the death of about 900 infants every year in the U.S.

Fast Facts:

пЃЌ Cigarette smoking is the #1 cause of preventable death in the U.S.

пЃЌ In the U.S., smoking results in the loss of more than 5.6 million years of potential life each year.

пЃЌ Cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of