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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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Nicotine - IDLH Documentation 16 August 1996. Centers for Disease Control and
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The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of
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