Very few addictions are as insidious as smoking addiction is. It is an addiction that will very slowly drain your wealth, wreck your looks and destroy your health. Ultimately it will kill you before your time.
As of 2006, 21 percent of American adults were addicted to smoking. That number is less than it used to be, but it is still incredibly sad that approximately 1 out of every 5 American adults is addicted to a habit that is so incredibly deadly.
The hope is that young people will begin to reject tobacco as they learn what it has done to older generations. However, as of 2005, 23 percent of high school students had smoked cigarettes in the past 30 days.
The truth is that most people who get addicted to smoking do so at a very young age. Statistics show that about 9 out of 10 tobacco users start smoking before they're 18 years old.
Most smokers do not just smoke one or two cigarettes per day. In fact, the average smoker smokes an average of 14 cigarettes per day.
All of this smoking absolutely devastates the health of the average smoking addict. It is now well known that smoking increases the risk of cancer, heart disease, emphysema and premature death.
In fact, if you want to calculate it, a single cigarette (Read More....)
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