1. Did you know that cigarettes contain formaldehyde–the
same stuff used to preserve dead frogs?
Did you know that the same cyanide found in rat poison is
available in the cigarette smoke nearest you–whether you're
a smoker or just hanging around people who smoke?
And how about the nicotine in cigarettes? You probably
already know that it's addictive, but did you know that it's
also a potent insecticide found in bug spray?
Teenage smokers suffer from shortness of breath almost
three times as often as teens who don’t smoke and produce
phlegm more than twice as often as teens who don’t smoke.
If a smoker smokes 20 cigarettes a day @ €6.30 they spend
€2299.50 a year on cigarettes. Think of what you could do
with all that money. Have the world's greatest slumber party:
Take your 40 best friends to the movies, then order 19 pizzas
(with everything, of course!) to munch on while reading your
162 new comic books.
Each year smoking kills more people than AIDS, alcohol,
drug abuse, car crashes, murders, suicides, and fires --
combined! More than 400,000 people die from smoking each
year. That's the same as three fully loaded jumbo jets
crashing each day with no survivors!
Harmful substances found in cigarettes include:
Nicotine.
Tobacco Tar.
Carbon Monoxide.
Irritants.
Carcinogens.