Essays on Cigarettes

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The cigarette industry is one of the most profitable areas in the world. Its funding is based on how much lives people want to give away. The more souls, the higher profit. One dies a little bit per year and gives away hundreds of cash for it. Why? Fuck, no idea.

Before we mourn my death, please refrain from smoking in my presence. Second-hand smoke contains a higher amount of toxic substances than direct smoke. The amount of carcinogen dimethlynitrosamine present in direct smoke is between 5.3 and 43 nanograms, while there are between 680 and 823 nanograms in second-hand smoke. As a matter of fact, the amount of quinoline from second-hand smoke is eleven times greater than direct smoke. A staggering 18,000 nanograms.

-November 11.

Adding a $1 per pack tax to cigarettes could raise more than $9 billion a year for states, health advocates said on Wednesday and a poll released with the study shows Americans would support such a tax. "We have irrefutable evidence that raising the tobacco tax lowers smoking rates among adults and deters millions of children from picking up their first cigarette," Seffrin said in a statement.

-Reuters

 

• About a third of the male adult global population smokes
• Smoking related-diseases kill one in 10 adults globally, or cause four million deaths
• Every eight seconds, someone dies from tobacco use
• About 15 billion cigarettes are sold daily – or 10 million every minute
• About one in three cigarettes are consumed in the Western Pacific Region
• The tobacco market is controlled by just a few corporations – namely American, British and Japanese multinational conglomerates
• Among young teens (aged 13 – 15), about one in five smokes worldwide
• Between 80,000 and 100,000 children worldwide start smoking every day
• Around 50% of those who start smoking in adolescent years go on to smoke for 15 to 20 years
• Studies show teenagers are heavily influenced by tobacco advertising
• Every cigarette smoked cuts at least 5 minutes of life on average – about the time taken to smoke it
• Smoking is the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death
• More than 4,000 toxic or carcinogenic chemicals have been found in tobacco smoke
• At least a quarter of all deaths from heart diseases and about three-quarters of world’s chronic bronchitis are related to smoking
• Smoking-related diseases cost the United States more than $150 billion a year
• US-based multinational Philip Morris – the world’s biggest cigarette company – was the world’s ninth largest advertiser in 1996, spending more than $3 billion
• Half of smokers think that smoking can’t be so dangerous
• In 1997, the tobacco industry’s spending on advertising in the United States was about $15 million a day ($5.7 billion for the year)

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