Saturday, August 14, 2010

9 Facts About Smoking

Fact 1

According to the Malaysian Council for Tobacco Control (2005), 25% of all deaths in Malaysia are due to cigarettes smoking, with smoking-related deaths comprising three out of five top killers in Malaysia.

Fact 2

The total number of smokers increased slightly from 2001 to 2007, with 49.87% of males being smokers in
2007, although there was a drop in female smokers between 2006 and 2007 from 18.88% to 18.26%. (1)

Fact 3

A twenty-a-day smoker, aged 30, who started smoking at around 16 has already breathed a kilo of tar into their lungs.

Fact 4

Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, many of which are highly toxic and over 40 of which are known to cause cancer. There is no safe 'low tar' cigarette and no safe level of smoking.

Fact 5

Male smokers may produce less sperm and their sperm may have more abnormalities than non-smokers. Women who smoke are more likely to have a miscarriage (2). Several studies have found that women who smoke have decreased fertility. Of these, one study has found that smokers have about 72% of the fertility of non-smokers (3).

Fact 6

A smoker is 10 times more likely to develop lung cancer. Heavy smokers are 15 to 25 times more at risk than non-smokers (4). 85% of all male cases and 77% of female cases of lung cancer are related to smoking (5).

Fact 7

Smoking reduces life expectancy by 7 - 8 years. That means, each cigarette shortens the life of the smoker by around 8 minutes.

Fact 8

Women smokers who use the pill increase their risk of a heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases by about ten times (6).

Fact 9

Over 57, 000 reports worldwide have examined the link between cigarette smoking and disease, making it the most researched cause of disease ever investigated in the history of Biomedical Research (7).

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