Smoking
is the single most preventable
cause of death and disease.
Cigarettes
cause
more deaths than cocaine, auto accidents, AIDS,
alcohol, heroin, fire, suicide and homicide
combined.
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I could give you just one message today, it
would be
this: smoking is extremely addicting.
Once you
start, you may not be able to stop.
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The
costs to our society include over 400,000 lives
lost every year in the U.S.-- over 1200 each day
-- and $50 billion annually in lost productivity
and increased health care costs. Worldwide, the
toll exacted by tobacco use is two to three
million deaths each year. Of the world's 1.2
billion smokers, the world health Organization
estimates that 500 million of them will die
because of smoking. This means that 9% of people
now alive will die from cigarettes.
Smoking
is Cool 
