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1.1 There are billion in
the world today. smokers

and if current trends continue

billion that number is 1.6
by the year 2025. increase TO expected to

3oomillion china is home to
smokers

who consume approximately

cigarettes a year,
1.7trillion

or...

cigarettes a minute.
3million

Worldwide.
1Omillion

are sold each day,
15billion

5trillionare produced and used and
upwards of on an annual basis.

5 trillion cigarette filters weigh
approximately

48o,538Bugatti Veyrons,

25

25,ooosemi trucks,

2,5oo747s,

1ocargo ships...or

billionpounds!2

It's estimated that trillions of
filters,

filled with toxic chemicals from
tobacco smoke,

make their way into our
environment as

discarded waste yearly.

While they may look like

white cotton,

cigarette filters are made OF
A PLASTIC called of very thin fibers

cellulose acetate.

A cigarette filter can take
between

to decompose. 18 months and
1o years

A typical manufactured approximately cigarette
contains

8 or 9 milligrams OF
NICOTINE,

while the nicotine content of
a cigar is

1oo to 2oo milligrams,

with some as high as

4oo milligrams.

four or five cigarettes to
There is enough nicotine in

kill an average adult if
ingested whole.

Whale Vomitis one of the
hundreds Ambergris, otherwise known as of possible additives used in manufactured cigarettes.

Radioactive lead are both present
in low levels in cigarette smoke. and polonium

hydrogen cyanide, one of the
toxic byproducts present in cigarette smoke,

genocidal chemical agent was used
as a during World War ll.

5oSecondhand smoke cancer-causing chemical compounds,
contains more than

11of which are known to
be group 1 carcinogens.

Kids are still picking up
smoking at the alarming rate of

in the U.S.,
3,oooaday

8o,oooand
1oo,oooa day worldwide.
to

1 in 5 teens age
13 to 15

smoke cigarettes.

Half of all
long-term smokers

will die a tobacco-related death.

Every...

eight...

seconds,

A HUMAN

life is lost

to tobacco USE

somewhere

in the world.

That translates to approximately

5milliondeaths annually.

Tobacco use is expected to
claim

the population of the United
states

3x the population of the
United states

one billion livesthis century

unless serious anti-smoking efforts are
made on a

globallevel.

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credits:WHO/WPRO - Smoking Statistics 28
May 2002. World Health Organization. Cigarette Litter - How Many? Clean Virginia Waterways - Longwood University. Cigarette Litter - Biodegradable? Clean Virginia Waterways - Longwood University. The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General 2004. Dept. of Health and Human Resources - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nicotine - IDLH Documentation 16 August 1996. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Radioactive Cigarettes 02 April 1980. Tobacco Documents Online. The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon Generals 04 Jan 2007. U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services. Shutterstock - http://www.shutterstock.com

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