The document provides statistics on smoking rates in Ukraine and worldwide. In Ukraine, 45% of adult men and 9% of women smoke, as do 45% of young men and 35% of girls. 68% of smokers in Ukraine want to quit. Worldwide, 2 billion people smoke, smoking causes 3 million deaths annually, and 62 million people have died from smoking since 1950. The document urges people not to start smoking for health reasons.

2. SMOKING STATISTICS IN UKRAINE
45% of adult men
and 9% of women
smoke
45% of young men
and 35% of girls
smoke
68% of smokers
want to give up
smoking
90% of population in Ukraine
support the idea of smoking
prohibition in public places
9 million people are active
smokers that is 1/3 of
Ukrainian population
120,000 people die every
year because of smoking
Every 4th teenager has
the first cigarette at the
age of 10

3. WORLD STATISTICS
2 milliard of
people smoke
Every 10 seconds one person
dies because of smoking
300,000 cigarettes are
smoked every second
6% of the world’s deaths
are caused by smoking
Smoking causes death of
3 mln people annually
62 million people have
died bacause of smoking
since 1950
The total mass of cigarette stubs
is about 2,5 mln tons yearly

4. Tobacco smoke contains more than
3,500 particles and chemicals, 150 of
which are toxic for humans.

5. What does a cigarette contain?

6. Why?

7. Friend’s advice

8. Teenagers want to look elder

9. I’m nervous… I need a cigarette

10. Do I look fashionable?

11. They smoke to be popular

12. I can give up smoking any time

13. I like experiments

14. Teens smoke to enrage parents

15. I smoke to make them a company

16. If I smoke,
they’ll accept me to
the company

17. I’ll become…
cleverer

18. I’ll be more…
fashionable

19. I’ll be more…
popular

20. I’ll be more…
educated

21. It looks so silly as when you do it

23. If you smoke purposely,
you’ll get 146 poison particles, 14 of
which are drugs.

24. If you smoke purposely,
you want to loose your eyesight

25. If you smoke purposely,
you want to end up with your lungs like
ashtrays

26. If you smoke purposely,
you want to have heart desease

28. Say NO to smoking. The difference is
clear

30. Smoking stinks!

31. Save money – quit smoking!

33. Smoking causes lots of diseases

35. You make a decision

36. If you quit smoking right now,
in 20 minutes your blood pressure will drop back to normal
in 8 hours the carbon monoxide levels in your blood stream will
drop by half and oxygen levels will return to normal
in 48 hours your chance of having a heart attack will have
decreased. All nicotine will have left your body.
in 72 hours your energy levels will increase
in 2 weeks your circulation will increase and it will continue to
improve for the next 10 weeks

37. If you quit smoking right now,
in 1 year your risk of having a heart attack will have
dropped by half
in 5 years your risk of having a stroke returns to that of
non-smoker
in 10 years your risk of having lung cancer will have
returned to that of non-smoker
in 15 years your risk of heart attack will have returned to
that of a non-smoker