Quit smoking to live a Happy Life..

2. There are 1.1
billion smokers in
the world today.
This number is
expected to
increase to 1.6
billion by the year
2025.

4.  Smoking is as much a psychological pleasure as it is a
physiological satisfaction.
 Coping with anger, stress, anxiety, tiredness or sadness.
 Smoking is pleasant and relaxing.
 Smoking makes you feel calm and alive.
 As a way to socialize.
 A way to look confident and in control.

5.  Statutory warnings on cigarette
packs shouldn't be taken lightly.
 Smoking does kill you, slowly
and over several years.
 Smoking contributes to a
number of cancers.
 Mixture of Nicotine and Carbon
Monoxide when inhaled
temporarily increases heart rate
and blood pressure.

6.  It is estimated the 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, they are actually made of
very thin fibers of plastic called
cellulose acetate.
 A Cigarette filter can take
between 18 months to 10 years
to decompose.

7.  A typical cigarette contains
approximately 8 or 9 mg of
Nicotine.
 While the nicotine content of a
cigar is 100 to 200 mg with some
as high as 400mg.
 There is enough Nicotine in 4 or
5 cigarettes to kill an average
adult if ingested whole.

8.  Ambergris, otherwise known as
WhaleVomit is one of the
hundreds of possible additives
in manufactures cigarettes.
 Radioactive lead and polonium
are both present in low levels in
cigarette smoke.
 Hydrogen cyanide, one of the
toxic byproducts present in
cigarette smoke was used as a
genocidal chemical agent
duringWorldWar II.

9.  Second hand smoke
contains more than 50
cancer causing chemical
compounds.
 11 of which are known to
be group 1 carcinogens.

10.  Children are picking up
smoking at an alarming rate
of 80,000 to 1,00,000 a day
worldwide.
 1 in 5 teens age 13 to 15 –
SmokeCigarettes

11.  Half of all the Long 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.

12.  It is estimated that approximately 1 billion live will be lost
this century unless serious anti –smoking efforts are made
on a global level.
 Remember, smoking kills not only your health and well-
being, but also that of others, including your children.

13. Stub out that cigarette. Start to live healthy.