Smoking is considered as a bad habit due to its worse effects on human health. There are many dangerous chemicals like nicotine which can cause lungs cancer and many other diseases like cardiac diseases. Here are some facts about cigarette smoking.
Basic Ingredients
A cigarette contains many components including lead, arsenic, formaldehydes, nitrogen oxide, carbon mono oxide and ammonia.
Most Traded Item
Cigarette is the most traded item in the whole world. There are 1 trillion cigarette are sold in the world country to country every year. Cigarette industry is one of the largest industries in the world.
Increase in Nicotine Percentage
Amount of nicotine in cigarette is increasing with passage of time. A research is conducted at Harvard University, which tells that 11 percent increase is found in nicotine in different brands like Camel, Newport and Darrel cigarette.
Smoker’s %age in the World
The highest percentage of smokers in the world is in U.S.A. It is about 28.7%. India is at 2nd position having 27.3% smokers. Tennessee has 26.8% smokers.
Special Figures
According to research, a smoker loss its 14 years of life due to smoking. In a cigarette there may be 4,000 ingredients and when it burns, more than 200 compounds from which 69 can cause cancer.