smoke — the convenient truth
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sm keThe Convenient Truth
1.1There are
billion
in the world today.smokers
and if current trends continue
billion th
at numb
er is
1.6by the year 2025.
increas
e TO
expect
ed to
3oo millionchina is home to
smokers
who consume approximately
cigarettes a year, 1.7 trillion
or...
cigarettes a minute.3 million
Worldwide.1O million
are sold each day, 15 billion
5 trillion are produced and used
and upwards of
on an annual basis.
5 trillion cigarette filtersweigh approximately
48o,538Bugatti Veyrons,
25
25,ooo semi trucks,
2,5oo747s,
1o cargo ships...or
billionpounds!2
It's estimated that
trillions of filters,
filled with toxic chemicals from tobacco smoke,
make their way into our environment as
discarded waste yearly.
While they may look like
white cotton,
cigarette filters are made
OF A PLASTIC called of very thin fibers
cellulose acetate.
A cigarette filter can take between
to decompose.18 months and 1o years
A typical manufactured
approximatelycigarette contains
8 or 9 milligrams OF NICOTINE,
while the nicotine content of a cigar is
1oo to 2oo milligrams,
with some as high as
4oo milligrams.
four or five cigarettes toThere is enough nicotine in
kill an average adultif ingested whole.
Whale Vomitis one of the hundreds
Ambergris, otherwise known as
of possible additives used in manufactured cigarettes.
Radioactive lead are both present in low levels in cigarette smoke.
and polonium
toxic byproducts present hydrogen cyanide, one of the
in cigarette smoke,
genocidal chemical agent was used as a
during World War ll.
5o
Secondhand smoke
cancer-causing chemical compounds, contains more than
11
of which are known tobe group 1 carcinogens.
Kids are still pickingup smoking at thealarming rate of
in the U.S., 3,ooo a day
8o,oooand
1oo,ooo a day worldwide.
to
1 in 5 teens age 13 to 15
smoke cigarettes.
Half of alllong-term smokers
will die a tobacco-related death.
Every...
eight...
seconds,
A HUMAN
life is lost
to tobacco USE
somewhere
in the world.
That translates to approximately
5 million deaths annually.
Tobacco use is expected to claim
the population of the United states
3the population of the United states
x
one billion livesthis century
unless serious anti-smoking efforts are made on a
global level.
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credits:WHO/WPRO - Smoking Statistics 28 May 2002. World Health Organization.
Cigarette Litter - How Many? Clean Virginia Waterways - Longwood University.
Cigarette Litter - Biodegradable? Clean Virginia Waterways - Longwood University.
The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General 2004. Dept. of Health and Human Resources - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Nicotine - IDLH Documentation 16 August 1996. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Radioactive Cigarettes 02 April 1980. Tobacco Documents Online.
The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon Generals 04 Jan 2007. U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services.
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