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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The Tobacco Free Amarillo (TFA) project has been in existence for approximately seven and a half years. The partnering components of TFA: Media, Schools, Community, Cessation, and Evaluation work together in a systematic public health focused approach to accomplish the goals and objectives of this project.

The following are preliminary evaluative findings on the cumulative effect of Tobacco Free Amarillo from inception to 2008.

Before the program began baseline studies yielded that 13.7% of 6th graders reported smoking in the past 30 days. The 6th grade prevalence has decreased to 3% in 2008. Over the seven and a half year project 6th grade smoking has decreased by 79%.
Before the program began baseline studies yielded that 25.6% of 8th graders reported smoking in the past 30 days. The 8th grade prevalence has decreased to 11.8% in 2008. Over the seven and half year project 8th grade smoking has decreased by 54%.
Before the program began baseline studies yielded that 42.3% of 9th graders reported smoking in the past 30 days. The 9th grade prevalence has decreased to 14.5% in 2008. Over the seven and half year project 9th grade smoking has decreased by 65%.
Before the program began baseline studies yielded that 42.1% of 12th graders reported smoking in the past 30 days. The 12th grade prevalence has decreased to 23.5% in 2008. Over the seven and half year project 12th grade smoking has decreased by 44%.

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