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Smoking Statistics
The following smoking statistics have been collected from many fields of smoking related research from around the world. These statistics make sobering reading. If you are considering stopping smoking, and are looking for the statistics to show the dangers of smoking, you've come to the right place!
- Ten thousand people are killed every day by tobacco use
- Three million, six hundred thousand people are killed by tobacco use every year
- One sixtieth of a gramme of nicotine, if put on your tongue, would kill you in ten minutes
- Four hundred thousand people are killed annually, by tobacco in the USA alone
- In the USA, one thousand one hundred people will be killed by tobacco today, 38% from cancer, 28% from lung disease (after a long, painful illness), and 34% of coronary disease
- Three thousand teenagers in the USA started smoking today. Smoking will kill more than a thousand of them
- In the next twenty-five to thirty years, tobacco will be the worlds biggest killer
- Bronchitis and pneumonia will be contracted by three hundred thousand toddlers in the USA alone this year, caused by people smoking around them.
- Four thousand babies will die in the USA this year because their mothers smoked while they were pregnant.
- A British smoker consuming 40 cigarettes a day, spends over three thousand five hundred pounds annually.
- The risk of 'cot death' (or 'sudden infant death syndrome') and death during childbirth is doubled for babies born to mothers who smoked while pregnant
- Smoking causes cancer in your pets
- Smokers have an increased risk of post-surgery wounds bursting, which can often be fatal.
- Smokers under general anaesthetic have a four hundred percent higher chance of their lungs collapsing or developing other lung problems during surgery than non-smokers.
- Smoking parents can cause breathing difficulties, coughing, asthma and ear problems in their children, and those children are 200% as likely to go on to smoke in the future.
- One hundred and twenty thousand men in the United Kingdom alone, experience erection difficulties due to smoking.
- On average, smokers develop thromboses, resulting in sudden death, some ten years earlier than non smokers.
- A baby breast feeding from a mother who smokes, has as much nicotine in it's blood as the mother.
- The section of the population which has the highest risk of a haemorrhage in the brain, are women, who smoke and take birth control pills
"Heya!
Its almost now 6 weeks ago that I had a smoking hypnotherapy from you.
And I just wanted to let you know that its going great since that day I never touched a cig or smoked one!
Its great, I`m feeling great.
Thanks a lot for that!
oh and the stawberries are lovely!
Kind regards
Janice Rijken"
(Name Used With Full Permission
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