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- Smoking can destroy your lungs. The tobacco in cigarettes contains thousands of chemicals, including stuff that is in batteries, rat poison, and car exhaust.
- Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, and lung diseases (including emphysema, bronchitis, and chronic airway obstruction).
- For every person who dies from a smoking-related disease, 20 more people suffer with at least one serious illness from smoking.
- 19.3% of all U.S. adults (45.3 million people) are current smokers. Approximately 28% of adolescents in this county currently use tobacco.
- In CT: More men than women smoke. There are also differences between racial and ethnic groups in smoking prevalence, smoking patterns, and quitting behaviors.
- Many adult smokers want to quit smoking. Approximately 69% of smokers want to quit completely. Approximately 52% of smokers attempted to quit in 2010.
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Smoking can destroy your lungs. The tobacco in cigarettes contains thousands of chemicals, including stuff that is in batteries, rat poison, and car exhaust. Credit: NIH
