Smoking Facts!!

• Today’s around 10 million cigarettes are purchased a minute and 15 billion are sold each day.

• The weight of approximately 5 trillion cigarette filters is 2 billion pounds. These trillions of filters are filled with toxic chemicals from tobacco smoke.

• Cigarette filters consist of very thin fibers of a plastic known as “cellulose acetate”. That is the reason a cigarette filter may take 18 months-10 years to decompose.

• Nicotine content of a cigar is 100-200 milligrams however a cigarette contains approximately 8-9 milligrams of nicotine.

• The nicotine content of 4-5 cigarettes is enough to kill an average adult if consumed completely. However a smoker take in only 1-2 milligrams of nicotine per cigarette and rest gets burned off.

• A manufactured cigarette contains hundreds of addictives and Ambergris is one of them. It is also known as “whale vomit”.

• Cigarette smoke contains low levels of radioactive lead and polonium. It also consists of benzene which is the root cause of acute myeloid leukemia.

• Cigarette smoke contains toxic byproducts i.e. Hydrogen cyanide. It was used as a genocidal chemical agent during World War II

• Cigarette smoke consists of more than 50 cancer causing chemical compounds. Out of which 11 are known to be “Group 1 carcinogens”

• One in every 5 teens (nearly 13-15 years of age) smoke cigarettes

• Smoldering cigarette smoke contains high level of toxins than the exhaled smoke does.

• Most of the long-term smokers die mainly because of tobacco-related death.