sm keThe Convenient Truth

1.1There are

billion

in the world today.smokers

and if current trends continue

billion th

at numb

er is

1.6by the year 2025.

increas

e TO

expect

ed to

3oo millionchina is home to

smokers

who consume approximately

cigarettes a year, 1.7 trillion

or...

cigarettes a minute.3 million

Worldwide.1O million

are sold each day, 15 billion

5 trillion are produced and used

and upwards of

on an annual basis.

5 trillion cigarette filtersweigh approximately

48o,538Bugatti Veyrons,

25

25,ooo semi trucks,

2,5oo747s,

1o cargo ships...or

billionpounds!2

It's estimated that

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,

cigarette filters are made

OF A PLASTIC called of very thin fibers

cellulose acetate.

A cigarette filter can take between

to decompose.18 months and 1o years

A typical manufactured

approximatelycigarette contains

8 or 9 milligrams OF NICOTINE,

while the nicotine content of a cigar is

1oo to 2oo milligrams,

with some as high as

4oo milligrams.

four or five cigarettes toThere is enough nicotine in

kill an average adultif ingested whole.

Whale Vomitis one of the hundreds

Ambergris, otherwise known as

of possible additives used in manufactured cigarettes.

Radioactive lead are both present in low levels in cigarette smoke.

and polonium

toxic byproducts present hydrogen cyanide, one of the

in cigarette smoke,

genocidal chemical agent was used as a

during World War ll.

5o

Secondhand smoke

cancer-causing chemical compounds, contains more than

11

of which are known tobe group 1 carcinogens.

Kids are still pickingup smoking at thealarming rate of

in the U.S., 3,ooo a day

8o,oooand

1oo,ooo a day worldwide.

to

1 in 5 teens age 13 to 15

smoke cigarettes.

Half of alllong-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.

Tobacco use is expected to claim

the population of the United states

3the population of the United states

x

one billion livesthis century

unless serious anti-smoking efforts are made on a

global level.

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credits:WHO/WPRO - Smoking Statistics 28 May 2002. World Health Organization.

Cigarette Litter - How Many? Clean Virginia Waterways - Longwood University.

Cigarette Litter - Biodegradable? Clean Virginia Waterways - Longwood University.

The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General 2004. Dept. of Health and Human Resources - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nicotine - IDLH Documentation 16 August 1996. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Radioactive Cigarettes 02 April 1980. Tobacco Documents Online.

The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon Generals 04 Jan 2007. U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services.

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