CANCER

Figures and facts

  • 1.3 billions is the number of smokers around the world 84% from developing countries.
  • 5.000.000 person die annually because of smoking “ i.e. on person every 6.5 seconds”
  • 1 of 6 adults will probably die because of smoking by the end 2030.
  • Between 1950 and 2000 smoking killed more than 60 million person in industrial countries alone.
  • Smoking is responsible of 20% fires around the world.
  • Cigarettes companies spend 6 billion US Dollars a year to attract youth to smoking.
  • The most targeted groups of cigarettes companies’ advertisements are women and teenagers.
  • Smokers waste 3 full days every 3 months in inhaling and exhaling smoke harming their children their families and themselves.
  • 90% of lung cancer deaths are caused by smoking .
  • 10 million person die annually die annually because of smoking.
35% of sudden death among newborn infants are caused by their mothers’ smoking.


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