Smoking Statistics Over Last Decade (1999-2009)

Everyone knows that the use of tobacco and drugs is not a healthy choice for any situation. Unfortunately, many people still continue to use them. It is a sad but true condition that many people who use tobacco pass away at a much earlier age due to smoking.

Over the last decade, between the years of 1999-2009 the deaths due to smoking have increased drastically. Many people admit that they try smoking to see what it's like or to fit in with a group. Most have seen advertisements for purchasing tobacco and get the idea from billboards or commercials. The commercials try to get smokers to believe that they will fit in better with a group or that smoking will reduce stress. Also, once you start to smoke it is very difficult to quit. It has been said that out of the 45 million people who smoke worldwide, 70% of the people want to quit. That is over half of the smokers who are doing something that in their heart they really don't want to do.

Some adults do not see the harm in smoking around their children since they are not the ones that are puffing the cigarette. However, this myth is very wrong. Second hand smoke increases the chance of getting a heart disease by up to 30%. Children can also develop severe bronchitis as well as asthma.

Between this past decade, over 500,000 deaths and illnesses have occurred due to smoking the leading illness being Lung Cancer. Others include Ischemic Heart Disease, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Stroke, different types of cancer as well as others

Below is a list of facts that have occurred due to smoking:

* One in every ten people die because of a disease related to smoking
* One in every three adults smoke a cigarette daily
* Ten million cigarettes are purchased in stores every minute throughout the world
* One person dies every ten seconds from smoking
* One in every five children try a cigarette and become addicted to them for years on end
* Everyday about ninety thousand children try a cigarette (luckily some don't continue)
* Second hand smoke may be just as dangerous to children as smoking a cigarette themselves
* The highest percentage of people that smoke are between the ages of 25 and 44

According to the New England Journal of Medicine, deaths from coronary heart disease in adults ages 25-84 living in the U.S., dropped from 542.9-266.8 per 100,000 from 1980-2000. Smoking, among other factors, contributes to coronary heart disease. According to the American Cancer Society, there was a 16% decrease in lung cancer deaths among men from 1991-2003. There was a 10% cancer rise in women simply because rates of women who smoked dropped more recently than those of men.

Do not continue or start to smoke. Statistics have shown that your life is shortened with each and every cigarette you inhale. Please think of not only your own health and safety but your kids and the people you love around you as well.