What's the Big Deal About Tobacco?

About 80% of smokers started smoking before the age of 18. Every day, nearly 3,000 young people become regular smokers.

Smoking kills more people each year than AIDS, alcohol, drug abuse, car crashes, murders, suicides, and fires--combined!

Ad agencies spend over $6 billion a year selling tobacco.

Ingredients: There are 401 poisons and 43 carcinogens in every cigarette.

Cigarette smoke produces six times the pollution of a busy highway when in a crowded restaurant.

Nationally, smoking results in more than 5 million years of potential life lost each year.

Nearly 12.5 million acres of forest are destroyed each year for cigarettes. That's about a tree every two weeks for the average smoker.

More than 5 million children living today will die prematurely because of a decision they will make as adolescents---the decision to smoke cigarettes.

The decision to use tobacco is nearly always made in the teen years, and about one-half of young people usually continue to use tobacco products as adults.

 

Tobacco is a big deal!
If you are already hooked ... quit today!
You can do it!