Smoking Statistics are about how many people smoke, which age group and how much money is spent on smoking. Statistics also tell us about what percentage of women smoke, smoking related diseases suffered by both men and woman, and the statistics also tell us about the people at higher risk of heart attack and stroke. One relief is that smoking is said to be falling in the developed world. But what is scary is that smoking is increasing in the developing world. Going through the statistics in US, Australia and other nations, Australia gives us hope.
General facts about smoking- smoking statistics 2008
- Smoking kills. Smoking-related diseases kill one in 10 adults globally, or cause four million deaths. If the same rate continues, by 2030 smoking will kill one in six people.
- About a third of the male adult global population smokes.
- Cigarette smoke contains 11 chemical compounds that are known to cause cancer.
- Someone dies every eight seconds from tobacco use
- Every minute 10 million cigarettes are sold
- Among young teens (aged 13 to 15), about one in five smokes worldwide.
- Half of long-term smokers will die from tobacco. Every cigarette smoked cuts at least five minutes of life on average – about the time taken to smoke it.
- Smoking is the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death. It is a prime factor in heart disease, stroke and chronic lung disease. It can cause cancer of the lungs, larynx, oesophagus, mouth, and bladder, and contributes to cancer of the cervix, pancreas, and kidneys.
- More than 4,000 toxic or carcinogenic chemicals have been found in tobacco smoke.
- Cigarette smoke contains benzene, carbon monoxide, arsenic, hydrogen cyanide and polonium 210.
- Tobacco is an addictive substance. Smokers who use other drugs such as heroin, methadone, amphetamines and barbiturates rate tobacco as their most addictive drug.
- At least a quarter of all deaths from heart diseases and about three-quarters of world’s chronic bronchitis are related to smoking.
- A 1998 survey found that tobacco companies were among the top 10 advertisers in 18 out of 66 countries surveyed.
- Through advertising, tobacco firms try to link smoking with athletic prowess, sexual attractiveness, success, adult sophistication, adventure and self-fulfilment
- Evidence shows that around 50% of those who start smoking in adolescent years go on to smoke for 15 to 20 years.
- Peer-reviewed studies show teenagers are heavily influenced by tobacco advertising.
- The tobacco industry has changed the way it advertises in the last 30 years. Now, only 10% of advertising expenditure goes to print and outdoor advertisements, while more than half goes to promotional allowances and items, such as t-shirts for young people or lighters and key rings.
this was very helpful, and also quite shoking. Why would people start smoking? if only they did research like this first….someone asks you if you want one…say hang on; read some of theese facts on this site and i guarentee you wont smoke.
thanks for informing me. I’ll never smoke. [freshman in highschool]
I need more dates and more statistics on people who smoke. I also need dates that are closer to 2007-2008
(both parents smoke) Seeing my dad struggle to get outta bed and my mother having issues with nicotine fits I know i wont and i hope people wont ever try!
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I smoked for 50 years, i had my legs amputated and i wish i had never smoked
thats sad :{ i feel bad for u and u are a very good example of why people shouldnt smoke, you made a mistake , and suffered the consequences. thank you for admiting it:) you are more help to me than you could ever imagine. thank you.
thank you. i am 13 years old and am using these to try and convince my parents to stop smoking. i want them to be around for a long time, because i love them, and im going to do all i can to help them quit.
Smoking as we are being informed of is extremely dangerous. I believe the answer here is how do we get people to quit. I believe if we could come up with some type of method that really helps in combating the addiction people have to smoking. I realise that are are products on the market, however these aren’t all that effective. Its the nicotine that is extremely addictive, so if we could come up with some type of method that will resolve this addiction then maybe people could stop smoking.
i am 16 years old and i have been smoking for while now and i have been thinking to myself “what the heck am i doing to myself”. after reading this facts, i am very shocked. I am really gonna quit now.
Thank you for info and it is very helpful to young teenager like myself.
I’m sixteen and in that time I have seen many people battle addiction and it pains me to know just how far the damage goes. I wish everyone knew the facts and would just take the time to really consider what it’s worth. Because, for what it’s worth, I would rather have a finger cut off than smoke my life away.
this is shocking facts. im gonna use these facts for a PSA
I am 16 yrs old and i have been smoking for 5 years already. I used to use it as a stress release but it turned into a addiction. My parents both know I smoke and its hard to afford my habbit. I am writing a piece for my school newspaper about teen smoking and I have found many things that I did not know b4 about smoking. I am obligated to stop smoking.
right now i am going through the statistics on smoking since the 4th of march i have a court case for smoking in public. nicotine may be an addictive drug, that is legal, but it isn’t a killer so far from my research of 20 different sites so far.
the “over 4000″ chemicals added to cigarettes helping the nicotine absorb into your system faster are the killers. from benzine to radio active materials have all been documented during my search into the statistics of smoking.
honestly i’m tired of being discriminated against for something that is legal. in this country. you guys want to be conscious of your health, here’s a suggestion. quit lobbying state and federal congresses to place laws about smoking, get them to do what their supposed to be doing acting in all our best interests by making the tobacco industry remove the “additives” from my cigarettes. cigarette smoke will become much less dangerous to me (who i care about), and you (who i really don’t give a dang about).
all i really want to do is sit outside and relax, no matter what the weather is like, without some self-righteous **** trying to tell me how to live my life. Get over yourselves, and start working together with smokers for a middle ground since by the statistics i’ve read we don’t seem to be going away.
By the way i checked something out while researching this topic, milk has a higher carcenogenic value than cigarettes by x2 and you give your kids milk every day. i think we should make milk illegal and make people stop drinking it… i dont think the dairy producers and the people who’s lively hoods depend on the production of milk will mind, DO YOU?
amazing i post a few days ago about how smokers and non-smokers should approach the problem united, since we’re all dying. but i come back to look at the replys and it’s no longer posted.
see it is a dangerous president, that violation of peoples 14th amendment rights just so you can have what you want. i mean taking away a persons privledges and and liberties just so you can have clean air. cars are legal praducts to that pump poisons into the air as a product of combustion, how about we treat people who drive cars like second hand citizens? i mean lets not let them drive on our city streets or bring their internal combustion engines onto state owned properties. or wait lets get even simpler lets have a second cigarette prohibition, or maybe a second alcahol prohibition? same priveleges are being violated by the same people just more people get to understand, and the ones responsible for the health issues and deaths are still allowed to create them.
why do we get discriminated against? because “big tobacco” places those chemicals into the cigarettes to get the nicotine to absorb into the bloodstream faster? those same chemicals create health issues for EVERYONE, and still our elected officials do nothing except pass laws that keep us fighting with each other. sooner or later you people have to wake up and smell the coffee, the laws created to day give them the grounds to come after you tomorrow.
Viara, stop smoking!!!
do not agree with any of this-all lies obviously
The fact that smoking kills up to 50% of smokers does not prevent some smokers from living into their nineties. The fact that the vastly overwhelming majority of deaths due to lung cancer are due to smoking does not mean that all lung cancer arises from smoking.
However, what I find most disturbing is the fact (not mentioned here) that (overwhelmingly) all smokers become addicted to the habit before they reach the legal age to purchase cigarettes. Non-smoking adults rarely take up the habit. Basically, the industry relies on ensnaring children to survive.
Serioulsy? why would someone like smoking in the firt place?? I actually think that if someone read this and knew what smoking thing to their body they are a retard. Why would you put your body through pain that you know is happening just to get a buzz.
Wow…This helps alot
I’m 15 and most of my friend’s smoke and i hae to show this to them to convince them not to smoke:)
Thank you so much for putting up these facts. They are very informative and helped me with an important essay of mine.
Those of you people who think smoking is cool, that is your own choice and your own action. This site is simply informative. If you smoke and don’t want to quit then don’t, its your CHOICE. But the one thing that you do need to think about the next time you light up is, What about the people around you? I, myself, has asthma and my grandparents used to smoke. They are both in their late 70′s early 80′s and really ill. They tried and tried to stop because I could no longer go to visit them because of how the smell and smoke effected me. They only recently successfully stopped along with my uncle. At the point right now that those you that are smoking and a doctor tells you there is NOTHING wrong with you, think 20 or less years from now. Smoking might be a good stress reliever or whatever you use it for but there are other ways to get rid of those things and feelings. If you smoke and you do quit, great, but if you don’t then as I said IT’S YOUR CHOICE. But please. Think of those around you and what harm you are causing them.
Smoking is ba-ba-bad and my friend Kyle smokes. Kyle is just fine and me too. Me and my Cig dont like people. Opps my friend Kyle is right next to me dead because he smoked.
this is really good ppl who smoke are mentally retarted!!!!!u need help.
smoking is bad everybody knows it. if u dont think so ur in denial. and quit making excuses and stopped saying u dont care cause by saying u dont care ur showing you do care
Whatever happened to science?
For a start, how many death certificates have recorded the cause of death as ‘tobacco’ or ‘smoking’ or, even more ridiculously,’passive smoking’? The numbers quoted are generated by a computer model. (Anyone heard of the saying “Garbage In, Garbage Out”?)
How do you think all those “nasties” like Arsenic, Benzene, Mercury, Lead, Polonium 210, etc. get into tobacco and its smoke? Could it be the same way as they get into the food we eat, the water we drink and the (smoke-free) ‘fresh air’ we breathe? Carbon monoxide is produced naturally by the human body! Cyanide is produced naturally by many nuts and vegetables. Can anyone provide a link naming the “more than 4,000 toxic or carcinogenic chemicals”? Well over 90% of tobacco smoke is water vapour, carbon dioxide, oxygen and nitrogen – just like ‘fresh air’.
In no way am I advocating smoking, just making a stand for science. For those who gullibly accept the above propaganda as ‘facts’, do a bit of Googling and educate yourself.
My mum and dad both smoke and it makes me so sad to watch them killing themselfs dont start smoking it is NOT COOL if u are a teenager and think it is cool to smoke .or do it because pier preassuee stand up to them and say to their faces You are mentally RETARDED ….. thanx i hope i helped
I need facts
no one understands smokers if they have never smoked. They judge and say “oh thank god i didnt CHOOSE to smoke” well, a lot of smokers only chose their FIRST cigarette…or second.
and the rest was addiction to nicotine that took hold almost instantly.
I was very opposed to smoking as a kid and llooked at smokers as those “dirty stinky people”
then some asshole sold me a pack of cigarettes for a dollar at school.
and i hated it.
then i was hospitalized a few years later..and lets just say, re introduced to smoking by another patient as “something to do to pass the time.”
so for all you people who think you chose to not smoke, well, you didnt, you just werent in the right atmosphere to be properly introduced to cigarettes and get hooked.
neither of my parents smoke. none of my family does or ever did.
its all situational, and none of us choose this.
so get off your pedestal ans stop telling people who lucky and happy you are that you never smoked.
no ones “giving in to peer pressure” here.
What a great story thank you especially much for sharing with us.
wowsers, the people that think it is not doing nothing to your health, please grow up & realise hun. it is wrecking your health wether it is in the long run , or sooner then others. It kills, its disgusting, & its just not something to do. I know from experience , i have smoked since a young age , well i am still younng. i started when i was 7 years of age and i quit, and still am in the struggle and process of staying away from the disgusting habit. it is hard to get away from, i smoked because i thought it helped with stress, and depression, as i grew up an matured.. i realised it was just making it so much worse. it breaks down the inner you, and your health.. im against smoking.. and another thing i am aboriginal tobacco use is in my culture, that makes it so much harder to quit. i am around it at cultural events i pray with it in my hand, i believe anyone can quit – as well as the fact anyone can start! alright other then that i have to get back to school work, everyone have a wonderful day, smokers theres a way to quit.. (: cheers !
smoking is tbhe best experiance of my life, it rocks dude
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it rockss peeps hatee you haterzzz!! wooooooooo smokingg doo itttt!!
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