There are currently billions of smokers globally, with projections indicating that this number could rise significantly by 2025. Cigarette filters, made from plastic, contribute to environmental pollution, taking 18 months to 10 years to decompose, while the health risks of smoking include high mortality rates and the release of carcinogens in secondhand smoke. Without major anti-smoking initiatives, tobacco use may claim up to one billion lives this century.

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There are
billion
in the world today.
smokers

4. and if current trends continue

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

6. 3oomillion
china is home to
smokers

7. who consume approximately

8. cigarettes a year,
1.7trillion

9. or...

10. cigarettes a minute.
3million

11. Worldwide.
1Omillion

12. are sold each day,
15billion

13. 5trillionare produced and used
and upwards of
on an annual basis.

14. 5 trillion cigarette filters
weigh approximately

15. 48o,538Bugatti Veyrons,

16. 25

17. 25,ooosemi trucks,

18. 2,5oo747s,

19. 1ocargo ships...or

20. billionpounds!2

21. It's estimated that trillions of filters,

22. filled with toxic chemicals
from tobacco smoke,

23. make their way into
our environment as

24. discarded waste yearly.

25. While they may look like

26. white cotton,

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

28. cellulose acetate.

29. A cigarette filter
can take between

30. to decompose.
18 months and 1o years

31. A typical manufactured
approximately
cigarette contains

32. 8 or 9 milligrams OF NICOTINE,

33. while the nicotine
content of a cigar is

34. 1oo to 2oo milligrams,

35. with some as high as

36. 4oo milligrams.

37. four or five cigarettes to
There is enough nicotine in

38. kill an average adult
if ingested whole.

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

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

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

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

43. 5oSecondhand smoke
cancer-causing chemical compounds,
contains more than

44. 11of which are known to
be group 1 carcinogens.

45. Kids are still picking
up smoking at the
alarming rate of

46. in the U.S.,
3,oooaday

47. 8o,oooand
1oo,oooa day worldwide.
to

48. 1 in 5 teens age 13 to 15

49. smoke cigarettes.

50. Half of all
long-term smokers

51. will die a tobacco-related death.

52. Every...

54. eight...

56. seconds,

58. A HUMAN

60. life is lost

62. to tobacco USE

64. somewhere

66. in the world.

67. That translates to approximately

68. 5milliondeaths annually.

69. Tobacco use is expected to claim

70. the population of the United states

71. 3x
the population of the United states

72. one billion livesthis century

73. unless serious anti-smoking
efforts are made on a

74. globallevel.

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