Essential Smoking Facts

When people think of smoking related illness, they usually directly think about lung cancer and other respiratory problems.  Although those the most common forms, Smoking also pays a toll on the Heart causing circulatory problems.  The risk of getting a heart attack is nearly doubled with people who smoke 1 pack of cigarettes a day.  In the United States, about 30% of all people who die from heart disease died from their smoking habit.

When people smoke Heavily they form the risk of atherosclerosis.  This is pretty much a gradual blockage of fatty materials in the human arteries.   The original lining of the artery eventually weakens and begins to corrode soon allowing the walls to harden and prevent the flow of blood from happening.  In other instances such as coronary heard disease, the amount of oxygen needed to pass through the body is inefficient because of the narrowing of the arteries due to smoking.  This can cause hardships in any individual’s lifestyle.  When strain is done to the heart, people with coronary heart disease often experience pain in their chest.

Many people that start smoking as a teen don’t realize that their habit will result in high blood pressure, increased blood clotting, destroyed cells in blood vessels, and a fatal heart attack down the road.  Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women so it is important to evaluate the risks that smoking will have on their body.  Also women who take birth control pills and smoke have a very much increase risk of having stroke and heart attack.  As stated by the American Heart Association, cigarette smoking is the most important preventable cause of premature death in the United States,  accounting for 440,000 of the more than 2.4 million annual deaths.  Second Hand Smoke is also another risk that much of the population is unaware about.  Not only does it cause several respiratory problems in individuals, but it also effects the heart.  According to the American Heart Association, about 22,700 to 69,600 premature deaths from heart and blood vessel disease are caused by other people’s smoke each year.

Peripheral Artery Disease is another is another form of Heart Disease that smokers have a high risk of getting.  Some of its effects are painful muscle cramps particularly in the individual’s legs due to lack of blood being circulated to the area.  This form of Heart Disease is related to atherosclerosis.

Sources include:

http://my.clevelandclinic.org/heart/prevention/smoking, http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/quit-smoking-heart, http://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/guide/kicking-habit, http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4545

Smoking has been a common trend in countries all around the world for centuries.  Even though every country has their own statistics, they all ultimately have share the same saddening truth.  Here is a page dedicated to providing shocking smoking facts world wide.

Out of all the smokers in the world about fifty percent of their deaths are smoking related

Becoming a regular smoker can cut your life expectancy by 12 years

In the marketplace today, nicotine is one of the most highly addictive substances

over 1 billion people on the planet smoke

tobacco causes 1 out of every five deaths

Somebody dies from use of tobacco every 8 seconds

Statistics show that twelve times more British people died of tobacco use when compared to the amount of people who died in the Second World War

Smoking costs the economy over 150,000,000,000 in annual health care costs

over 400,000 deaths in the U.S alone are caused by smoking

In China about 1.2 million smoking related deaths occur every year

In Eastern Europe, an estimated 59% of male adults smoke.  Women in this region also have a High percentage. This is more than the East Asia and the Pacific Regions.

80% of smokers started smoking before the age of 21

6.5 million deaths are predicted in the year 2015 and 8.3 million in 2030

25% of deaths in residential fires are caused by cigarettes.  There are roughly 1,000 related deaths and 3,000 injuries each year as a result.

In The United States, 46 billion cigarettes are smoked each year

In Canada the percentage of people that smoke is decreasing.  This number is approaching 18 percent.

In Australia, Children are not allowed to purchase cigarettes nor cigars.  Though Children  are not allowed to purchase, they to consume tobacco.

French Law states that ashtrays are deadly weapons.

In 2005 statistics showed that 17% of Australians were smokers

40% of the 11.2 million Cubans use tobacco products, Also Cuban doctors are the heaviest of smokers within the population

Smoking Percentages among races:

%Men             %Women

Asians                                                   21.3                    6.9

African Americans                              27.6                    18

White                                                     25.1                    21.7

Hispanic/Latino                                   23.2                    12.5

Smokers usually take up 18 days worth of smoke breaks every year.

In China, smokers go through 1.7 trillion cigarettes  a year.

In The United states, More people die from smoking than automobile accidents, AIDS, homicides, and drug abuse combined.

Sources include:  American lung Association, American Cancer Society, Canadian Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, American Heart Association, Canadian Lung Association