The Effects of Smoking

In the United States, an estimated 25.6 million me (25.2 percent) and 22.6 million women (20.7 percent) are smokers. 70 percent of all these smokers say that they want to quit, but only about 5 percent succeed. Every eight seconds, someone in the world dies due to tobacco. This translates into 450 people an hour; 10,800 people a day; 3,942,000 people a year. Each year more Americans die from smoking related diseases than die from aids, drug abuse, car accidents, and homicide combined. It has been responsible for 16 percent (or 1 in 6) of all deaths in the U.S. each year.
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