Health . Prevention . The Hazards Of Smoking . Smoking Facts

Source: Tar Wars Calendar 2004-2005, Published by the American Academy of Family Physicians

How Smoking Affects The Environment

If you smoked a packet of cigarettes a day, your habit would cost around $1800 per year. Wouldn't you rather do something fun with that money, like a trip to Disneyland?
A broken leg of a smoker takes 80% longer to heal than a nonsmoker (276 days compared to 146)
Secondhand smoke causes 3,000 cases of lung cancer in nonsmokers each year

Arsenic: Used in rat poison
Acetic Acid: Vinergar, hair dye and developer
Acetone: Main ingredient in paint and fingernail polish remover
Ammonia: typical household cleaner
Benzene: rubber cement
Butane: Cigarette lighter fluid
Cadmiun: Found in batteries and artists' oil paint
Formaldehyde: used to embalm dead bodies. This embalming fluid is also oftern used to embalm small animals in biology classes.
Hexamine: a major ingredient in barbecue lighter fluid
Napthalenes: used in explosives, moth balls and paint pigments.
Nitrobenzene: A gasoline additive
Phenol: used in disinfectants and plastics
Stearic Acid: Found in candle wax
Styrene: Found in insulation material (Styrofoam)
Vinyl Chloride: ingredient found in garbage bags

Short-term use of spit tobacco can cause cracked lips, white spots, sores and bleeding in mouth.
Smokers run slower and can't run as far, affecting overall athletic performance

Tobacco companies make $1.8 billion from under-age sales.