Despite anti-smoking campaigns worldwide, smoking deaths are still on the rise. This is because cigarette smoke contains many carcinogenic and mutagenic substances. And nicotine makes it so addicting in spite of its harmful effects.Look at the staggering statistics on smoking deaths worldwide:

• Because of the harm that passive smoking does, 3,400 nonsmokers die because of lung cancer every year.
• In the United States, 430 infant deaths are caused by smoking-related sudden infant death syndrome.
• In 2004, the World Health Organization projected 58.8 million smoking deaths.
• In 2015, tobacco smoking is predicted to kill 6.5 million people and 8.3 million in 2030.
• A smoker or former smoker dies every 6.5 seconds!
• In the United States, over 443,000 Americans die because of smoking.
• Secondhand smoke kills about 50,000 Americans each year.
• In China, there have been 1.2 million smoking deaths each year.
• Cigarettes cause more than 1 in 5 American deaths.
• Death among smokers is 2 to 3 times higher compared to nonsmokers.
• Secondhand smoke caused 38,000 deaths annually.

Smoking also causes diseases that can certainly lead to death.
• In the United States, 87% of lung cancer cases are related to smoking. People who have smoked tobacco at some point in their lives have a one in ten chance of developing lung cancer. In men who continue to smoke tobacco, the risk increases to one in six.
• Secondhand smoke increases the heart disease risk of nonsmokers by 25 to 30% and their lung cancer risk by 20 to 30%.
• According to a study, smokers below 40 years of age are 5 times more likely to have a heart attack.
Do you want to be one of the smoking deaths in the future? Or would you want to cause the death of your loved one through secondhand smoke? Quit smoking now!

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