SMOKE - The Convenient Truth - @empoweredpres

This presentation is statistics about the cigarette industry and how it is affecting the people, teens, environment, and the world. @empoweredpres

1. sm ke The Convenient Truth
3. 1.1 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. 3oo million china is home to smokers
7. who consume approximately
8. cigarettes a year, 1.7 trillion
9. or...
10. cigarettes a minute. 3 million
11. Worldwide. 1O million
12. are sold each day, 15 billion
13. 5 trillion are produced and used and upwards of on an annual basis.
14. 5 trillion cigarette filters weigh approximately
15. 48o,538 Bugatti Veyrons,
17. 25,ooosemi trucks,
18. 2,5oo 747s,
19. 1ocargo ships... or
20. billion pounds! 2
21. It's estimated that
22. trillions of filters,
23. filled with toxic chemicals from tobacco smoke,
24. make their way into our environment as
25. discarded waste yearly.
26. While they may look like
27. white cotton,
28. cigarette filters are made OF A PLASTIC called of very thin fibers
29. cellulose acetate.
30. A cigarette filter can take between
31. to decompose. 18 months and 1o years
32. A typical manufactured approximately cigarette contains
33. 8 or 9 milligrams OF NICOTINE,
34. while the nicotine content of a cigar is
35. 1oo to 2oo milligrams,
36. with some as high as
37. 4oo milligrams.
38. four or five cigarettes to There is enough nicotine in
39. kill an average adult if ingested whole.
40. Whale Vomit is one of the hundreds Ambergris, otherwise known as of possible additives used in manufactured cigarettes.
41. Radioactive lead are both present in low levels in cigarette smoke. and polonium
42. toxic byproducts present hydrogen cyanide, one of the in cigarette smoke,
43. genocidal chemical agent was used as a during World War ll.
44. 5o Secondhand smoke cancer-causing chemical compounds, contains more than
45. 11 of which are known to be group 1 carcinogens.
46. Kids are still picking up smoking at the alarming rate of
47. in the U.S., 3,ooo a day
48. 8o,ooo and
49. 1oo,ooo a day worldwide. to
50. 1 in 5 teens age 13 to 15
51. smoke cigarettes.
52. Half of all long-term smokers
53. will die a tobacco-related death.
54. Every...
56. eight...
58. seconds,
60. A HUMAN
62. life is lost
64. to tobacco USE
66. somewhere
68. in the world.
69. That translates to approximately
70. 5 million deaths annually.
71. Tobacco use is expected to claim
72. the population of the United states
73. 3 the population of the United states x
74. one billion lives this century
75. unless serious anti-smoking efforts are made on a
76. global level.
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79. credits: WHO/WPRO - Smoking Statistics 28 May 2002. World Health Organization. Cigarette Litter - How Many? Clean Virginia Waterways - Longwood University. Cigarette Litter - Biodegradable? Clean Virginia Waterways - Longwood University. The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General 2004. Dept. of Health and Human Resources - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nicotine - IDLH Documentation 16 August 1996. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Radioactive Cigarettes 02 April 1980. Tobacco Documents Online. The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon Generals 04 Jan 2007. U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services. Shutterstock - http://www.shutterstock.com
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