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Smoking Statistics: Its Roots and Numbers

By Wayne Cooper

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Smoking is a very old practice, one that began when European explorers came to the Americas and learned about tobacco from the Natives. After this, it became all the rage in Europe and American tobacco fields supported the habit for years, pushing American profits sky high. Smoking statistics get grimmer and grimmer from that point out. Disease, death, and growing addictions, in spite of it all, are clearly outlined in the world-wide numbers.

American smokers take the cake, covering nearly 1,000 every year per capita. Some European nations are hot on our trail, but the 46 million smokers of America smoke an impressive 420 billion cigarettes each year. Around 20% of all men and women smoke in America, and about a third of men around the globe are addicted to tobacco. 10% of the people that die every year, 4 million people around the world, fall victim to cigarettes. A lot of people know it's dangerous to smoke, especially in America, where a new ad campaign against or restriction on cigarettes seems to pop up every year, but it just doesn't seem to help.

When a new country begins to slowly move itself out of despair, its inhabitants begin to pick up on the trend, and in America, the problem seems to be growing among the lower class. Perhaps the reason for these smoking statistics is the perceptions surrounding tobacco use. A lot of people see smokers as being independent and popular, especially with peer pressure pushing on youngsters; draws like these are nearly inescapable for those who have no other role models. Surely we all know better today, but the generations past who became addicted, before the research was out, have already had an influence on their children and grandchildren. You could almost say it's a contagious disease.

The only problem is that it's not a real disease, although it directly leads to many; cigarette smoking is entirely preventable. A lot of societies are trying to fight the prevalence of cigarettes, in their midst, with warnings and smoking statistics. Half of all long term smokers (nearly 50%) will die from a smoking related illness: a very jarring statistic, meaning that if you're a smoker, either you or your friend who smokes is going to die from tobacco complications. 25% of lung and heart deaths are related to smoking as well, meaning if you smoke and live with four family members, one of them is probably going to feel the effects of your habit in a rather fatal way.

Smoking statistics are out there by the barrel-full. Watching loved ones slowly dwindling away their life spans and those of their family and long time companions is nothing short of heart breaking. People around the world are aware that the problem starts with children, and there are all sorts of measures that governments and citizens take each year to prevent the spread of the habit to new generations. The problem is that influence from an inner circle is more powerful than a billboard. The long, slow fight against smokers will go on, and hopefully the statistics won't get too much worse before they begin to look up.

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