Smoking statistics give an indication of the dangers of smoking

Smoking statistics are scary. It reveals the dangers of smoking. The statistics give an indication of how dangerous and deadly the smoking habit can be.

Indeed when one scans through these statistics one can understand why smoking is the single largest cause of preventable death in the world.

A relief is that, according to available statistics, the number of smokers in developed countries is decreasing. The scary part is that the amount smokers in the developing countries are on the increase.

Smoking statistics:

The statistics state the following facts--

1) More or less one third of the global population are smokers.

2) Globally more than one tenth of adults are killed due to smoking related diseases.

3) In America more than one fifth of deaths are caused by the smoking habit.

4) In America more than 23% of men and more than 18% of women are smokers.

5) One fifth of teens between the age of 13 and 15 smoke worldwide.

6)More than 50% of people who start smoking in their grown up years carry on smoking longer than 15 to 20 years.

7) About 50% of smokers die from tobacco.

8) One quarter of deaths from heart diseases and three quarter of deaths from chronic bronchitis are smoking related.

9) Eighty percent of people that do smoke fall into the trap of smoking addiction before they are 21 years of age.

10) With each cigarette you smoke you shorten your life with at least 5 minutes. The average smoker reduces his/her life expectancy with between 3 and 10 years.

More smoking statistics:

1) You find more than 4000 toxic chemicals of which more than 40 are carcinogenic (it can cause cancer) in tobacco smoke. The smoke also contains carbon, benzene, hydrogen cyanide and arsenic.

2) Tobacco smoke is a dangerous and very addictive drug. Many people really act recklessly as far as smoking and the dangers associated with it are concerned. The casual way in which it is dealt with and the influence by tobacco advertising are two of the main reasons for this recklessness.

3) Coronary heart disease is the main cause of death caused by the nicotine addiction of smokers.

4) Smoking is the main cause of lung cancer by men and women. Eighty percent of lung cancers could be prevented if the patients did not smoke.

5) Passive smoke , also known as second hand smoke, is dangerous. Non-smokers exposed to cigarette smoke have a 25% higher risk of developing lung cancer or a heart disease.

Children do run a high risk of developing problems with the respiratory system when exposed to second hand smoke.

6) Smoking during pregnancy is irresponsible, because it leads to birth defects and miscarriages.

7) Smoking causes COPD and emphysema.

8) It is possible that not all smoking statistics are 100% accurate, but one thing that is certain is that smoking leads to nicotine addiction. The addiction leads to disease and the disease causes death.

More scary facts that are revealed by quit smoking statistics:

1) There are many smokers, especially in the developed countries, who want to give up smoking, but their addiction is just too strong.

2) Peer pressure and tobacco advertising are two influences that play a big role in people’s decisions to start smoking.

3) It has been found that the fact that governments allow tobacco advertising create the sense of “smoking cannot be that dangerous”.

4) The smoking habits of role models, especially parents, play a big role in smoking habits.

5) If one has a look at all the dangers of smoking then it is really scary to think that cigarettes are that easy to buy.

A positive fact about smoking statistics:

Due to all the negative smoking effects many governments did introduce smoking bans which did have a positive effect on the quit rate of smokers.

Concluding facts about smoking statistics:

The indications of the statistics are that if you become an addict you die, I say please realize you are an addict, then you adapt, then you stop and then you become free and then you live.

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