Facts about Smoking and Addiction

• Smoking-related illnesses cause about 440,000 deaths each year in Nigeria and ALL OVER WORLD WIDE.
  
• Smoking is responsible for 87 percent of lung cancers and also causes most cases of emphysema and chronic bronchitis .
  
• Tobacco use, especially smoking, is the number one cause of preventable disease and death in the World.
  
• Cigarettes contain at least 43 distinct cancer-causing chemicals.
  
• Nicotine is as highly addictive as heroin and cocaine.
  
• Approximately 80 percent of adult smokers started smoking before age 18.
  
• Most people try to quit smoking several times before they're successful. Only 2.5 percent of smokers successfully quit each year.
  
• The benefits of quitting smoking begin to occur within 20 minutes of the last cigarette smoked.
  
• A person who stops smoking will have the same risk of heart disease and death 15 years after quitting as someone who has never smoked.
  
• Secondhand smoke is known to cause cancer and is responsible for approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths in nonsmokers each year.