Tobacco Awareness Month by mckylie.davidson

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Tobacco Awareness Month

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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Is a practice in which a substance, most commonly tobacco, is burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled
Nicotine is the main chemical in tobacco it is just as addictive as heroine or cocaine.
Cigarettes contain over 4,000 chemicals & 2,000 poisons containing toxins found in rat poisoning, battery acid
Nicotine is considered addictive because it alters brain functioning; Smoking gives pleasure to the brain
Nicotine is a ‘reinforcing’ drug; smokers want it regardless of its damaging effects

Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States
Imposing a terrible toll in health, lives and dollars on families, businesses, & governments
Tobacco kills more than 400,000 people annually
That's more than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined.
Tobacco is also the leading cause of lung cancer, tobacco rots the skin, teeth, nails and slowly kills you

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Tobacco costs the U.S. more than $96 billion in health care expenditures
$97 billion in lost productivity each year.
Cigarette use causes premature death.
On average, smokers die 14 years earlier than nonsmokers. Secondhand smokers are also at risk
On average, secondhand smoke causes 3,400 deaths from lung cancer; 46,000 deaths from heart diseas

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People who die each year from their own cigarette smoking approx. 400,000
Kids under 18 alive today who will ultimately die from smoking 6,000,000+
Adult nonsmokers who die each year from exposure to secondhand smoke approx. 50,000
People in the USA who currently suffer from smoking-caused illness approx. 8.6 million
More than 3,000 kids try their first cigarette each day.