Facts and Stats
Health Related Problems
Cigarette Smoke Substances
Secondhand Smoke
100
This kills more people than AIDS, murder, alcohol and drunk driving combined
What is tobacco?
100
Of the 4000 chemicals in tobacco smoke, 43 are known to cause this.
What is cancer?
100
Mr. Clean uses this to clean your floors and toilets, but can do the same to your lungs if he lights up.
What is ammonia? (a floor and toilet cleaner)
100
The only way to fully protect non-smokers from secondhand smoke exposure.
What is eliminating smoking in indoor spaces?
200
90% of smokers start before this age
What is 18?
200
Children of parents who smoke have an increased risk of this illness?
What is respiratory illness?
200
Ladies remove nail polish with this substance found in cigarette smoke.
What is acetone?
300
Tobacco is the number one preventable cause
What is death?
300
More people die of this type of cancer than of colon, breast, pancreatic, prostate, and ovarian cancers combined
What is lung cancer?
300
This substance found in cigarette smoke makes one wonder if smokers ever have a rodent problem.
What is arsenic? (rat poison)
400
The amount of chemicals in cigarette smoke.
What is 4000?
400
Approximately this many people in the U.S. die from tobacco-related diseases.
What is 1,200?
400
Ever wonder what it would be like inside a gas chamber? This substance, found in cigarette smoke, will take you there.
What is cyanide?
500
The amount of non-smoker deaths per year due to second-hand smoke.
What is over 50,000?
500
An estimated number of deaths in Florida each year due to cigarette use.
What is 28,600 deaths?
500
This substance gave cigarettes the nickname “Embalmer”. It is a substance used to preserve the animals you dissect in science lab!
What is formaldehyde?
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