Did You Know?

Smoking cigarettes causes: Emphysema, strokes, heart attacks, Cancers of the lungs, throat, esophagus, mouth, larynx, cervis, pancreas, and kidneys.

Everyday 1,150 people in the United States die from smoking.

More than 400,000 people in the United States die every year from smoking-related illnesses.

Each year, smoking kills more people than AIDS, car accidents, murders, alcohol and drug abuse, and suicides COMBINED.

1 in 5 deaths in the U.S. is smoking related.

47 million people smoke cigarettes in the United States; over half of these people will die because of their addiction to smoking.

There are over 40 chemicals in tobacco smoke that cause Cancer.

Smoking is the #1 PREVENTABLE cause of death in the United States.

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