Month: January 2017

Tobacco affects millions of people in the Us

Smoking

It has been proved that  smoking is one thing that is really bad for you.  Reword the sentence. Smoking is taking over so many peoples lives.  Smoking kills  many people every year.  Indicate how many. Tobacco is something that becomes very addictive. Tobacco is taking the live of our people in America and we need to change.  Smoking  comes with so  many diseases for people and so many deaths.

.                                Facts about smoking

Cigarette smoking has been identified as the most important source of preventable morbidity and premature mortality in the United States and the world.

• Smoking-related diseases cause an estimated 440,000 American deaths each year.
• Smoking costs the United States over $150 billion annually in health care costs.
• A 2004 Study by the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion found that cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer.
• Women account for 39 percent of all smoking deaths.
• There are 1.1 billion smokers in the world today, and if current trends continue, that number is expected to increase to 1.6 billion by the year 2025.
• China is home to 300 million smokers who consume approximately 1.7 trillion cigarettes a year, or 3 million cigarettes a minute

In the United States we need a change because we are losing too many people to smoking. So lets work together to fight  this so we can live a long healthy life. You are not just hurting yourself you are also hurting your family and your children. Do it for all of us so we can all live a positive life.

Tobacco effects million of people in the US. cigarettes contains thousands of poisons  including nicotine nicotine is the poison in the cigarets  that makes you addicted to it therfor you will keep buying it.Around 5.4 millions deaths are caused per year due to tobacco. according to statistics tobacco will kill  billion people by the end of the 21st century.

-Cigarettes are the single-most traded item on the planet, with approximately 1 trillion being sold from country to country each year. At a global take of more than $400 billion, it’s one of the world’s largest industries.

The American brands Marlboro, Kool, Camel and Kent own roughly 70% of the global cigarette market.

In most countries around the world, the legal age for the purchase of tobacco products is now 18, raised from 16, while in Japan the age minimum is 20 years old.

Cigarettes contain arsenic, formaldehyde, lead, hydrogen cyanide, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, ammonia and 43 known carcinogens.

. The U.S. states with the highest percentage of smokers are Kentucky (28.7%), Indiana (27.3%), and Tennessee (26.8%), while the states with the fewest are Utah (11.5%), California ( 15.2%), and Connecticut (16.5%).

he United States is the only major cigarette market in the world in which the percentage of women smoking cigarettes (22%) comes close to the number of men who smoke (35%). Europe has a slightly larger gap (46% of men smoke, 26% of women smoke), while most other regions have few women smokers. The stats: Africa (29% of men smoke, 4% of women smoke); Southeast Asia (44% of men, 4% of women), Western Pacific (60% of men, 8% of women.

Nicotine reaches the brain within 10 seconds after smoke is inhaled. It has been found in every part of the body and in breast milk.

Sugar approximates to roughly 20% of a cigarette, and many diabetics are unaware of this secret sugar intake. Also, the effect of burning sugar is unknown.

‘Lite’ cigarettes are produced by infusing tobacco with CO2 and superheating it until the tobacco ‘puffs up’ like expanding foam. The expanded tobacco then fills the same paper tube as ‘regular’ tobacco.

Smokers draw on ‘lite’ and menthol cigarettes harder (on average) than regular cigarettes; causing the same overall levels of tar and nicotine to be consumed