A typical 60 minute hookah session is the same as smoking 100 cigarettes.
Source
"Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking: Health Effects, Research Needs and Recommended Actions by Regulators. WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation (TobReg)." World Health Organization. Geneva, Switzerland. 16 Sept. 2005.
http://www.who.int/tobacco/global_interaction/tobreg/Waterpipe%20recommendation_Final.pdfRelated tags
More Facts
Every year, tobacco-related disease kills about 202,000 women in the US.
Source:
"The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress. A Report of the Surgeon General." U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health. Smoking-Attributable Morbidity, Mortality, and Economic Costs. 2014. Report.
145
Reactions
Tobacco accounts for one out of every ten deaths worldwide and claims nearly 6 million lives each year.
Source:
"Tobacco Fact sheet N°339." World Health Organization. 6 July 2015. Web.
131
Reactions
Because of the tobacco industry's products, about 353 people in the U.S. die of lung cancer every day.
Source:
"Tobacco Use. Targeting The Nations Leading Killer: At A Glance 2010." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Atlanta, GA: 2. Web.
265
Reactions
In 2014, 5.9 trillion cigarettes were consumed worldwide - amounting to 814 cigarettes for every man, woman, and child in the world.
Source:
"Cigarette Use Globally." The Tobacco Atlas. 2015. Web.
126
Reactions
In the U.S., 113,100 people die from smoking-related pulmonary diseases each year (pneumonia, influenza, emphysema, bronchitis, and chronic airways obstruction).
Source:
"The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress. A Report of the Surgeon General." U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health. Smoking-Attributable Morbidity, Mortality, and Economic Costs, 2014. Report.
72
Reactions
For approximately 50 years, tobacco companies falsely and fraudulently denied that smoking causes lung cancer and emphysema.
Source:
"United States of America, Plaintiff, and Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights, and Nationals African American Tobacco Prevention Network, Intervenors, and Philip Morris USA, Inc. (f/k/a Philip Morris, Inc.), et al., Defendants." United States District Court for the District of Columbia. 17 Aug. 2006: 1-4, 219, 259, 293, 330, 479, 655, 819, 1397. Document.
83
Reactions
In 2008, 48.8% of people for whom their high school diploma was their highest level of educational attainment who have ever smoked reported that they had successfully quit.
Source:
"Cigarette Smoking Among Adults and Trends in Smoking Cessation --- United States, 2008." CDC. Atlanta, GA. 58(44). 13 Nov. 2009: 1227-1232. Web.
85
Reactions
69 animal and/or human carcinogens are in tobacco smoke.
Source:
"Smoking and Tobacco Control." U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute. Bethesda, MD. Risks Associated with Smoking Cigarettes with Low Machine-Measured Yields of Tar and Nicotine. 19 Nov. 2001.
166
Reactions
Of current smokers in the U.S., 384,000 have had a stroke from smoking.
Source:
"Cigarette Smoking Attributable Morbidity - United States, 2000." CDC. 52(35). 2003: 842-844. Table.
58
Reactions
Every 6 seconds, someone in the world dies from a smoking-related disease.
Source:
"Tobacco Fact sheet N°339." World Health Organization. 06 July 2015. Web.
2175
Reactions
In 2010, 75.6% of African Americans were interested in quitting smoking and 59.1% reported making a quit attempt.
Source:
"Quitting Smoking Among Adults --- United States, 2001--2010." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 11 Nov. 2011. 60(44): 1513-1519. Web.
198
Reactions
During 2005-2009, smoking-attributable productivity losses totaled $150.7 billion per year.
Source:
"The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress. A Report of the Surgeon General." U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health. Smoking-Attributable Morbidity, Mortality, and Economic Costs. 2014. Report.
31
Reactions
High School Nation
truth’s throwing a dance party & you’re invited.
- 04/22/19 Seattle, WA
- 04/23/19 Seattle, WA
- 04/24/19 Seattle, WA
