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| What You Should Know About...Tobacco Facts and How Tobacco Affects Your Health |
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What You Should Know About . . . |
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Tobacco Facts and How Tobacco Affects Your Health
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- Did you know that food service workers have a 50% greater risk of dying from lung cancer than the general population, in part, because of secondhand smoke exposure in the workplace?
- Tobacco use is a cause of cancer of the lung, lip, oral cavity, pharynx, esophagus, pancreas, larynx, trachea, bronchus, cervix, bladder and kidney.
- Smoking leads to an increased risk of pneumonia, influenza, bronchitis, and emphysema.
- Cigarettes kill more than 400,000 Americans every year - more deaths than from AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, murders, suicides, drugs and fires, combined.
- According to World Bank projections, tobacco use is expected to increase by more than 500 million people in the next quarter century.
- Cigarette companies spend more than $11.2 billion annually on marketing in the United States, much of it that reaches and influences kids.
- Every day, more than 1500 kids in the U.S. become new, regular daily smokers; and roughly one third of them will die prematurely from smoking-caused illnesses.
- There are more smokers in China than there are people in the United States.
- Currently, more than five million U.S. kids twelve to seventeen years old are smokers.
- In the United States, high school students smoke more than 900 million packs of cigarettes per year.
- Canada has moved to ban terms such as "light" and "low tar" from cigarette packaging.
- More than 5 million children alive today will die prematurely from smoking-related illnesses.
- Nearly every adult who smokes (almost 90 percent) took his or her first puff at or before the age of 18.
- Increasing tobacco taxes is an effective way to prevent and reduce smoking, especially among kids.
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