Smoking: An enderment to every
Smoking: An endangerment to everyone's life Have you ever tried smoking? If you have and continued, have you ever tried to quit? In 1999, an estimated 45.7 million adults were former smokers. Of the current 46.5 million smokers, more than 32 million persons reported they wanted to quit smoking completely. Approximately 90 percent of smokers begin smoking before the age of 21. Nicotine is an addictive drug, which when inhaled in cigarette smoke reaches the brain faster than drugs that enter the body intravenously. Smokers become not only physically addicted to nicotine, but they also link smoking with many social activities, giving smokers a difficult time breaking the habit. From 1950 to 2000, tobacco will have killed more than 60 million people in developed countries alone, more than died in World War II. One out of every two long-term smokers will ultimately be killed by tobacco. In developed countries, half will be killed in old age, after age seventy, but the other half will be killed in middle age, before age seventy, and those who die from smoking before age seventy will lose more than 20 years of life expectancy. Four million people die yearly from tobacco-related diseases, one death every eight seconds. I
htmlVisited on November 17, 2003http://www. htmVisited on November 17, 2003http://www. Smoking popularity among adolescents rose in the 1990s in several residential countries. Tobacco is fast becoming a greater cause of death and disability than any single disease. 1 percentOf the 300 million Chinese men now aged 0-29, at least 100 million will eventually be killed by tobacco. Smoking in pregnancy accounts for an estimated 20 to 30 percent of low-birth weight babies, there has been up to 14 percent of premature deliveries, and also 10 percent of all infant deaths. While new markets are being opened by tobacco industry actions, old markets have not been closed. Effective treatment for tobacco dependence can significantly improve overall public health within only a few years. shtmlVisited on November 17, 2003. For example, lung cancer has caused an estimated 65,700 female deaths in 2002, compared with 39,600 estimated female deaths caused by breast cancer.
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