The Facts!!

The Facts

  • Smoking kills 120,000 people in the UK. Most die prematurely, losing 8 years of life.
  • 98% of lung cancer is caused by smoking.
  • 120,000 british men are impotent because of smoking.
  • The 120,000 death toll is 6 times higher than the total deaths arising from road accidents (3,349), poisoning and overdoses (3,157), all other accidental deaths (8,579), murder and man slaughter (513), suicide (4,066), and HIV (234) in the UK put together.
  • About half of all regular smokers will eventually be killed by their habit.
  • Smoking causes about 30% of all cancer deaths (including around 84% of lung cancer deaths), 17% of all heart disease deaths and at least 80% of deaths from bronchitis and emphysema.
  • Smokers who smoke between one and 14 cigarettes a day have eight times the risk of dying from lung cancer compared to non-smokers. Smokers who smoke more than 25 cigarettes a day have 25 times the risk compared to non-smokers.
  • Cigarette smoking increases the risk of having a heart attack by two or three times compared with the risk to non-smokers.
  • About 90% of cases of peripheral vascular disease which lead to amputation of one or both legs are caused by smoking -- about 2000 amputations a year in the UK.
  • One cigarette knocks 11 minute offer a smokers life.
  • Every day 300 people die in the UK from smoking, equivalent to one jumbo jet crashing and killing all its passengers.
  • "Smoking relaxes me". It doesn't! Tests have shown a smoker is less relaxed after cigarette than before, and always carries more stress than a non-smoker.
  • Smoking make your skin thinner.
  • There are over 600 additives in cigarettes and over 4,000 chemicals present in cigarette smoke including carbon monoxide, benzine, ammonia, arsenic, acetone, formaldehyde, cyanide and as many as 60 known carcinogens (cancer causing components).
  • The good news- much of the damage is reversible if you stop smoking early enough!
  • The good news- According to results published in the New Scientist magazine, Hypnosis is the most effective way of stopping smoking, being more effective than will power alone..