half of them will have all died during their middle ages, expiring 20 to 25 years sooner than statistically expected. Currently, smoking causes the death of one out of every ten adults. That is nearly eight million smoking-related deaths every year (an estimated one death every four seconds).
             Directly, smoking is not the only killer here, however. Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS), better known as Second Hand Smoke (SHS), is the by-product of cigarette smoking. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that "each year...3,000 nonsmoking Americans die of lung cancer and more than 35,000 [ '...as many as 62,000...' (American Lung Association)] die of heart disease" (Targeting Tobacco Use (At a Glance) page 2). Statistics show that "for every eight smokers that die, one non-smoker dies" (epa.gov), due to SHS. That is a staggering number of deaths, especially when you consider that these people died for no other reason than someone else's awful decision. When
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