Facts about Tobacco
Nicotine is found in tobacco products is very addictive. The power of nicotine addiction has been tested to be just as bad as cocaine and heroin addiction. Cigarettes, dip, chewing tobacco anything that has nicotine can cause nicotine withdrawals. Average age of a person that begins to smoke is around 13. People begin using smokeless/ spit tobacco for 12-25 years.
Most new users are teens, not adults. Every day, about 2,100 youth and young adults become daily smokers. In the US 26% of middle school, and 21% of high school students who smoke. When someone quits smoking and using tobacco products the body immediately starts and tries to heal itself. Nicotine is a stimulant, which speed up your body. Keep in mind your body they won’t calm your body down. 2 packs a day smokers spend 3-4 hours a day with a cigarette around them. New smokers and ex smokers about 1/3 gain weight, and some lose weight then some stay the same weight.
When it comes to weight loss it is much smarter and safer to do the right thing like exercise and make right eating decisions. Every year in the U.S., more than 480,000 people die from tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke, making it the leading cause of preventable death in this country. Tragically, each day thousands of kids still pick up a tobacco product for the first time.
Cigarettes and other forms of tobacco; including cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, and chewing tobacco contain the addictive drug nicotine. Nicotine is absorbed into the bloodstream when a tobacco product is chewed, inhaled, or smoked. A typical smoker will take 10 puffs on a cigarette over the period of about 5 minutes that the cigarette is lit. Thus, a person who smokes about 1 pack (25 cigarettes) daily gets 250 hits of nicotine each day.
About 1.69 billion pounds of butts end up as toxic trash each year, making cigarettes the most littered item on Earth. For every person that dies from a smoking-related disease, there are 20 more who suffer from at least 1 serious illness associated with smoking.
The CDC estimates that adult male smokers lose an average of 13.2 years of life and female smokers lose 14.5 years of life because of smoking. And given the diseases that smoking can cause, it can steal your quality of life long before you die. So people here’s the proof. Stop! Before it happens to you.