STOP SMOKING NOW

Fact 1
A twenty-a-day smoker, aged 30, who started smoking at around 16 has already breathed a kilo of tar into their lungs.

Fact 2
Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, many of which are highly toxic and over 40 of which are known to cause cancer. There is no safe 'low tar' cigarette and no safe level of smoking.

Fact 3
Male smokers may produce less sperm and their sperm may have more abnormalities than that of non-smokers. Women who smoke are more likely to have a miscarriage. Several studies have found that women who smoke have decreased fertility. Of these, one study has found that smokers have about 72% of the fertility of non-smokers.

Fact 4
A smoker is 10 times more likely to develop lung cancer. Heavy smokers are 15 to 25 times more at risk than non-smokers4. 85% of all male cases and 77% of female cases of lung cancer are related to smoking5.

Fact 5
Smoking reduces life expectancy by 7 - 8 years. That means, each cigarette shortens the life of the smoker by around 8 minutes.

Fact 6
Women smokers who use the pill increase their risk of a heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases by about ten times6.

Fact 7
Over 57,000 reports worldwide have examined the link between cigarette smoking and disease, making it the most researched cause of disease ever investigated in the history of Biomedical Research7.

Fact 8
Cigarettes are the single-most traded item on the planet, with approximately 1 trillion being sold from country to country each year. At a global take of more than $400 billion, it’s one of the world’s largest industries.

Fact 9
U.S. cigarette manufacturers now make more money selling cigarettes to countries around the globe than they do selling to Americans.

Fact 10
Urea, a chemical compound that is a major component in urine, is used to add “flavor” to cigarettes