Every 10 seconds someone dies of smoking-related illness.
Bar workers working eight hours inhale as many cancer-causing chemicals as if they smoked 8 cigarettes.
Characters in movies smoke over 50% more actual smoking rates in society.
Only 25% of people diagnosed with lung cancer live more than five years.
Baseball legend Babe Ruth smoked cigars and chewed tobacco, he died at the age of 53 from throat cancer.
The average two-pack-a-day smoker inhales over 1 liter of brown gooey tar each year into their lungs.
Every cigarette you smoke takes away 7 minutes from your life.
On average, non-smokers live 15 years longer than smokers.
Last year, worldwide, over 5 million people died as a result of tobacco.
Just a few things second hand smoke can cause are lung cancer, heart disease, asthma, and middle ear infections.
The vast majority of tobacco users and smokers are hooked when they under the age of 18.
Smokers pay twice as much for life insurance.
If instead of smoking 2 packs per day for 50 years, you could have had an estimated $1,000,000 if you invested it in a major tobacco company.
Tobacco use has been
associated with premature aging and skin wrinkling.
Over 90% of laryngeal cancers are caused by smoking.
Smoking causes 87% of all lung cancer cases.
Maternal smoking while pregnant also causes more miscarriages and creates low-birth weight babies .
Maternal smoking has been implicated in the risk of diabetes, obesity and mental retardation in newborns.
Tobacco smoke contains hundreds of chemicals and at least forty of which have been implicated in cancer.
Evidence indicates that there is a 25% to 30% increase in the risk of coronary heart disease from exposure to secondhand smoke.
Secondhand smoke contains over 50 known carcinogen (causes cancer) and causes lung cancer and heart disease in non-smoking adults.
Smoke free ordinance in Pueblo Colorado reduced hospitalizations for Heart Attacks between 2002 and 2006 by 27%.
It has been generally shown that a non-smoker living with a smoker has a 50% increased chance of developing heart disease.
Pregnant women who smoke are more likely to have babies who have an increased risk of death from sudden infant death syndrome and respiratory distress.
Secondhand smoke each year causes about 3,000 lung cancer deaths in nonsmoking adults.
According to the CDC, if current smoking patterns continue, 6.4 million people currently younger than 18 will die prematurely from a tobacco-related disease.
Researche has shown an association between secondhand smoke and low levels of interleukin-10 in infants, an anti-inflammation protein which helps to protect against asthma and allergies.
Each year cigarette smoking accounts for approximately 1 of every 5 deaths.
Use of smokeless tobacco causes cancers of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus; gum recession; and an increased risk for heart disease and stroke.
Smoking cigars increases the risk of oral, laryngeal, esophageal, and lung cancers.
The younger people begin smoking cigarettes, the more likely they are to become strongly addicted to nicotine. Young people who try to quit suffer the same nicotine withdrawal symptoms as adults who try to quit.
Several studies have found nicotine to be addictive in ways similar to heroin, cocaine, and alcohol. Of all addictive behaviors, cigarette smoking is the one most likely to become established during adolescence.4
Children and teenagers constitute the majority of all new smokers, and the industry’s advertising and promotion campaigns often have special appeal to these young people.
Smoking is the #1 preventable cause of premature death in the United States.
In the U.S., smoking kills more people than cocaine, heroine, alcohol, fire automobile accidents, homicides, suicides, and AIDS combined.
90% of adult smokers are addicted to tobacco before they reach the age of 18; 50% before the age of 14; currently the average age of initiation to tobacco is age 11.
Did you know nearly every adult who smokes (almost 90 percent) took his or her first puff at or before the age of 18?
Did You Know? Smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke is a contributing factor for spontaneous abortions, still-born births, low birth weight, and sudden infant death syndrome.
Did You Know? The tobacco industry spends more than $36 million a day in the U.S. on a marketing barrage that attracts youth to its deadly products.

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President Obama Signs FDA Tobacco Bill

Posted on 13:52, Thursday, December 10

A day that will be noted in history books, today President Obama signed landmark legislation into law that will award the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory power over the manufacture and marketing of many commercially produced tobacco products.

Monday June 22, 2009

A day that will be noted in history books, today President Obama signed landmark legislation into law that will award the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory power over the manufacture and marketing of many commercially produced tobacco products.

Known as the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, this bill puts significant emphasis on protecting our young people through strict control of advertising and products specifically aimed at minors. The bill is heartily supported by both Republicans and Democrats.

While the FDA will not have the authority to ban tobacco products completely, it will have power in a number of areas that affect consumers.

Tobacco Manufacturing and Control:

· Ingredient disclosure -- tobacco companies and importers of tobacco products will be required to list out all ingredients in their products.

· Ingredient control -- the FDA will have the authority to require tobacco companies to remove or reduce harmful ingredients in tobacco products.

· New products -- tobacco companies must seek FDA approval for new tobacco products.

· Ban candy flavorings -- The FDA will ban the use of kid-friendly additives such as fruit and candy flavors in tobacco products.

· Advertising -- the bill will limit marketing meant to attract young smokers.

· Warning labels -- the FDA will require tobacco companies to post larger and stronger messages about the hazards of smoking on tobacco packaging.

· "Light", "Mild", "Low" -- misleading words that tobacco companies will no longer be able to use to describe their products.

Additionally, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act will levy fees on tobacco companies to pay for the new regulations enacted.

While this legislation isn't perfect, it is a giant step in the right direction. Let's hope that from here, the U.S. government and others around the world will continue to tighten control over tobacco products that threaten to steal a human life every three seconds by the year 2030, if current smoking trends continue, unchecked.