Youth in Charge

Happiness is…. Means healthiness

A true friend is… the one who is not peer pressuring you

Think twice before… take that puff

My advice is… for you to quit now

You’ve got to…quit now or it will get worse

If you wish…to quit, I can help

Healthy is suppose to…be tobacco free

Every Cloud…looks like smoke

Everything in life is easy if you…relive your stress a different way

Grandma thinks…you need help

If things seem crazy… I want you to stop

The way to get rid of a problem is… to overcome it

I just don’t understand why… you smoke

If you are tired of working…take a break

When you get old…you will regret smoking

If you feel like everything is going wrong, you should…not smoke

If you feel like giving up you should…give it another try

When you get a boyfriend you should…stop smoking.

If you miss someone a lot, you can always, try to not smoke.

If you see a tornado coming…smoking isn’t going to help.

If you want to be a winner, you need to…quit smoking.

If you want good advice you should…try to quit.

The great thing about getting old is…your are tobacco free

Life is like…happiness is you don’t smoke and live longer

Life’s up and downs are…sometimes because of tobacco.

The best advice in life is…to live it to the fullest.

HEALTH is not like… a smoked up black lung or a bad heart

No matter where you go… theres always help.

Ok, get this straight…SMOKING IS NOT COOL

The way to solve a problem is…not by smoking

The one rule in life is…to not die young.

The secret of success is…don’t stop trying.

Always remember… smoking isn’t a stress reliever

When opportunity knocks… take advantage of it

When you miss somebody you should… think about the good

You know someone is your friend when…they want to help you.

You can always win if you just…believe that you can

If you need to fix something, you should…try your best

All you need in life is….happiness

If things get you down you should…not smoke

The best way to stay out of trouble…is to not be a follower

No matter what don’t forget…that smoking kills.

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