smoking statistics deaths

smoking statistics deaths
alcohol vs smoking??????

Ok so alcohol related deaths vs smoking related deaths.

Which has a higher percentage?

There is the standard, liver failure vs lung cancer

or just the fact that ur more likeley to die from drinking i.e walking out into a road whilst drunk n getting owned by a car. or drink driving n crashing your car into a tree/lampost etc

which is worse? smoking or drinking?

also are there any statistics to show alcohol related deaths against smoking related deaths?
oh and financially….. do they both work out the same? spend £5 on fags 7 days a week, or spend £35 on one night out on alcohol. work out about the same right?

A very complex comparison.

It is the “way” you drink which makes the difference. “Binge” drinking is bad whichever way you look at it. But spending £35 in a night binge drinking versus £35 over a week drinking in moderation are two completely different things. One is quite likely to do you harm, the other is quite unlikely to do you harm. Also the type of alcohol makes a difference too.

Smoking is quite likely to do you harm no matter how you do it, and that harm is cumulative whereas mild drinking (or drinking in moderation) is generally not. It is not just cancer which can be caused by smoking, but a host of other health problems too.

smoking statistics deaths

Basic Statistics On Cigarette Smoking

People smoke for different reasons.  Some do it as a form of stress release, to some a form of socialization.  To some it is their way of rebelling against their superiors, to some it is an addiction.  But whatever reasons a person has to make them start smoking, it is important that one knows the basics about cigarette smoking.  Let’s begin with general smoking statistics:

l    Approximately one-third of the adult male population worldwide smokes tobacco in different forms.
l    Smoking-related medical conditions kill one out of ten adults around the world, which may be summed up to an estimated four million deaths per year.  It has been predicted that by the year 2030, if the current fatality trending continues, tobacco smoking will claim the life of on in every six people.
l    A very frightening fact:  every eight seconds, someone dies from tobacco usage.
l    About fifteen billion cigarettes are sold on a daily basis – that makes about ten million every minute.
l    Among the different World Health Organization (WHO) regions, the western Pacific region that covers east asia and the pacific has the highest smoking rate, with almost two-thirds of men smoking.
l    The tobacco market is controlled but a few corporations – American, British, and Japanese multinational conglomerates.

Here are some smoking statistics on the youth:
l    All around the world, about one in five young teenagers between the ages of thirteen and fifteen smoke.
l    It is scientifically proven that an approximated fifty percent of people who started smoking at an early age continue to smoke for fifteen to twenty years.
l    It has been estimated that about a quarter of the youth population in the western Pacific region will die from smoking.

Here are some health-related statistical data on smoking:
l    About half of long-term smokers will pass away from cigarette smoking.  It has been said that a stick of cigarette cuts away at least five minutes of life on average – it is just about the same duration of time needed to smoke a stick of cigarette.
l    Smoking is the single largest preventable cause of diseases and early deaths.  It has been reported to be a primary factor in cardiovascular disease, stroke, and chronic lung disorders.  It can also cause cancers of different organs in the body like the lungs, kidneys, larynx, esophagus, and bladder.
l    There are more than four thousand toxic and/or cancer causing chemicals present in tobacco smoke.
l    It has been recorded that at least one-fourth of all deaths caused by heart disease and about three-fourths of world-wide records of chronic bronchitis have been linked to cigarette smoking.
l    Smoking-related medical conditions cost the United States more than a hundred and fifty billion dollars every year.

Here are some trivial facts on smoking and its advertisements:
l    A recent survey found that roughly eighty percent of American advertising executives from top agencies do believe that cigarette ads makes smoking more appealing or socially acceptable to the youth.
l    Cigarette advertisements often connect smoking to sexual attractiveness, success, adult sophication, adventure, and self-fulfillment.

After reading about all these smoking statistics and facts, ask yourself before you light up your first cigarette:  Is it really worth it?

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Passive smoking vs being in a car.?

If you believe 100% in the recent statistics used on an advert concerning secondhand smoking deaths in Europe it means that this year in the U.K. you will be more than twice as likely to die in a car accident than by passive smoking.

The question i’m asking is, if you are one of those people who are extremely concerned about passive smoking and how it effects your health and chances of an early death shouldn’t you also, logically, not get in to a car at all as you are twice as likely not to see the year out that way than by enhaling cigarette smoke?

I’m not looking for an argument about second hand smoking, just wondered what peoples thoughts would be on this.

The second you start a car up you are putting more pollution into the atmosphere in 30 minutes than 10 smokers do in a lifetime of smoking.
It is not the tobacco that harms, but the chemicals in it.
More people contract cancer from chemicals ( sprays on food, hair spray, paint, factory exhausts, etc, than from smoking.

Saving the Environment. Saving Cigarettes. Saving Money.

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