What is smoking? -smoking is a white little stick that is known as a cigarette -this cigarette contains: *Nicotine (highly addictive) *Over 40,000 chemicals (over 43 cause cancer) *tar *carbon monoxide and DDT *formaldehyde and arsenic *ammonia *hydrogen cyanid
Christine! Wanted to fit in in high school and started when she was 16. She smoked for 28 years at age 44 she got diagnosed with oral cancer. After many treatments was cured and now has been cured for 5 years!
My dad has smoked for 12 years, my step dad smoked for 14 years until he was diagnosed with cancer last spring and hasn't ever smoked since he's been cured. We save lots of money today.
How it's changed! In the 50's and 60's many smoked! They could smoke in school, restaurants, stores, anywhere! And over 20 million have died since 1964 from smoking. Slowly since then many have dropped. And today only 9% of teens smoke and only 18.1% of adults smoke. That's this generation changing that.
Fun Facts: -smoking causes 1 in every 5 deaths -every cigarette smoked reduces life span by 11 minutes -69% of smokers want to quit -completely legal for minors to smoke -15 billion cigarettes are smoked worldwide per day -Hitler led the first anti-smoking campaign -more than 1/3 of smokers are Chinese -$7.00 per pack ends up being $1,850 p/year