Over 480,000 people die in the USA
each year from smoking. Tobacco kills as many Americans as in all
our wars combined. Over 1,000,000,000 people. Tobacco kills that
many in alittle over 2 years.
Each year, smoking kills more people than AIDS, alcohol, drug abuse,
car crashes, murders, suicides, and fires---combined!
Tobacco kills as many Americans as in
all our wars combined. Over 1,000,000,000 people. Tobacco
kills that many in a little over 2 years
Tobacco kills as many Americans as in
all our wars combined. Over 1,000,000,000 people. Tobacco
kills that many in a little over 2 years
Nationwide 20.5% of men and 15.8% of
women smoke. 24.7% of adults with less than a high school education
smoke compared to only 6% of adults with a college graduate degree smoke. 17% at or above the poverty level smoke compared to
27.9% below the
poverty level. View Document
Smokers are hooked when they
are children !!!
Approximately 80% of adult
smokers started smoking before the age of 18. Every day,
nearly 3,000 young people under the age of 18 become
regular smokers. Among adults in the United States who
have ever smoked daily, 91.3% tried their first
cigarette and 77.0% became daily smokers before age 20
years (2). Among high school seniors who had ever tried
smokeless tobacco (SLT), 73% did so by the ninth grade
(2). Cigarette usage in Kentucky is well established by
the 8th grade (3). A survey of 20 life-time smokers at
Somerset High School in 2002 showed the average grade of
starting smoking is 8.8.
CDC. The health
consequences of smoking: Nicotine addiction -- a report
by the Surgeon General. Rockville, Maryland: US
Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health
Service, CDC, 1988; DHHS publication no. (CDC)88-8406.
US Department of Health
and Human Services. Preventing tobacco use among young
people: a report by the Surgeon General. Atlanta: US
Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health
Service, CDC, National Center for Chronic Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and
Health, 1994.
Children will imitate their piers and role
models. If they see a teacher or sports figure smoking,
they will be motivated to smoke. Thus, keeping children
from not smoking can largely be achieved by presenting
to them community models of not smoking. This is called
the "Paradigm Shift" theory of smoking prevention. As
one child said to me after a non-smoking school
presentation "If smoking is really that bad for you
wouldn't it be illegal". Read More About It: Tobacco
Control In the Wake of the 1998 Master Settlement
Agreement
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/state_data/state_highlights/
2012/states/kentucky/index.htm
The 2010 Kentucky youth
tobacco survey evaluated middle school children and
showed a 40% decline in smoking and a 29% decline in
overall tobacco use between the years of 2002 and 2019.
However, 17% of middle school children still used
tobacco products and nine percent still smoked. In
addition 48% of middle school children who are
non-smokers are exposed to secondhand smoke. In
Kentucky, 37% of high school students use tobacco
products, 27% smoke and 17% use smokeless tobacco. Thus,
63% of childhood smokers started in or before middle
school.
The following is from a survey of 46
Somerset, KY High School Students (Year 2000):
Males
Females
Total
Lifetime Tobacco Users
85%
50%
70%
Current Tobacco Users
73%
20%
50%
Lifetime Smokers
77%
50%
65%
Current Smokers
58%
20%
41%
Frequent Smokers
46%
20%
35%
The following terms are defined by
the CDC: Lifetime Smoker:
Ever smoked even if just one puff.
Current User: Smoked in last 30 days.
Frequent User: Smoked 20 or more
cigarettes in last 30 days.
Established User: Smoked more than 100
cigarettes in their lifetime.
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