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10 Frightening Facts About Smoking

In the UK, deaths caused by smoking were five times higher than the combined total of all deaths from traffic accidents, poisoning, alcohol, murder, suicide, HIV infection, and all other accidents.
It takes an average of 39 weeks for a bone fracture to heal in a smoker, compared to 21 weeks in a non-smoker.
Children are three times more likely to smoke if their parents smoke.
Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals including 5 regulated hazardous air pollutants, 47 regulated hazardous wastes, 69 known carcinogens and over 100 chemical toxins
About 34 million days a year are lost in England and Wales through sickness absence caused by smoking
Smoking is responsible for about 90 percent of lung cancer deaths
Maternal smoking is linked with abnormal lung function, reduced height and lower educational levels in children and throughout life.
The global tobacco market is valued at $378 billion, rising by 23% by 2012
Lung cancer is the most common cancer in the world with 1.3 million new cases every year.
A smoker in their 40’s has the skin of someone 20 years older