Some SMOKING Facts!!!!

As I'm in the process of quiting my smoking habbit, naturally I surf a lot of websites regarding quitting and also about other facts related to smoking and cigarettes.


Here are some interesting facts that I managed to find out:

1. Global cigarette production in 2004 was 5.5 trillion units, or 868 cigarettes per every man, woman and child on the planet.
2. At least 4.5 trillion [non-biodegradable] filter-tipped cigarettes are deposited annually somewhere in the world.
3. China, United States, Brazil, Turkey and Indonesia are the five countries that produce the most raw tobacco leaves and manufactured cigarettes.
4. There are around 1.2 billion smokers in the world (about one-third of the global population aged 15 and over). Nearly forty per cent (39.4%) of Europeans smoke, (up from 1995, when a figure of 33.9% recorded.)
5. Modern cigarette manufacturing machines use more than six kilometres of paper per hour.
6. Tobacco is the second major cause of death in the world. It is currently responsible for the death of one in ten adults worldwide (about 5 million deaths each year). If current smoking patterns continue, it will cause some 10 million deaths each year by 2020. Half the people that smoke today -that is about 650 million people- will eventually be killed by tobacco.
7. Each year nearly 600 million trees are destroyed to provide fuel to dry tobacco. Put in another way one tree is destroyed for every 300 cigarettes.

Blah, blah blah blah!!!!!! LOL!!!! So anyone going to quit with me too???

The original article can be found here.