Smoking Kills

It is estimated that 55% of young men and 51% of young women who started
smoking by age 15 will die before age 70 if they continue to smoke.

Tobacco kills more than 40,000 Canadians per year. That's more than the total
number of deaths from AIDS, traffic accidents, suicide, murder, fires and
accidental poisoning.

Smoking is addictive!

A. 8 out of 10 teens who try smoking get hooked.

B. Over half of Grade 12 students are unable to quit.

C. Only 5% of student smokers think that they will be smoking in 5 years.
But 5 years later, 80% of them are heavy smokers.

D. 60% of smokers try to quit. Most smokers quit several times before
stopping for good.

E. 80% of smokers would like to quit.

F. Cigarette smoking is more addictive and harder to quit than heroin or cocaine.


Children of parents who smoke:

1. cough and wheeze more than other children

2. have more ear infections

3. have reduced lung capacity

4. have bronchitis and pneumonia more often
make more trips to hospital

5. are more likely to develop asthma

6. suffer more from asthma than non-smokers children who have asthma