Do You Know These Harms Of Smoking?
1. Those who suffer the most from cigarette consumption are babies in the womb. 65 out of 100 children born to mothers who are smokers are born with a disability
2. While cigarette consumption is gradually decreasing in developed countries, cigarette consumption is gradually increasing in developing and poor countries.
3. Turkey is the 7th market for cigarettes in the world.
4. Martin Broughton, the boss of BRITTISH AMERICAN TABACCO (BAT), the second largest cigarette company in the world and the largest in the UK, does not smoke and admits that smoking is harmful.
5. 55% of regular smokers are at greater risk between the ages of 35-38.
6. In smoking mothers; decreases, breast milk decreases. Sudden infant death may occur. Babies’ brains and lungs are damaged. Smoking causes sinusitis, rhinitis, and chronic respiratory problems (cough and post-nasal drip) in babies. (Yeşilay Dergisi)
7. Deaths caused by smoking are 13 times more than those of other drugs.
8. Sudden death in smokers is 10 times more common than non-smokers.
9. 90% of leg vein occlusions are caused by smoking.
10. Smoking women age 10 years more than non-smokers.
11. Infertility is 10 times more common in women who smoke.
12. Cigarette smoke is the first of the 3 negative factors that damage the human brain the most. Others are blood pressure and sugar.
13. A person who smokes two packs of cigarettes a day is under the influence of radioactivity equivalent to the lethal dose of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. (Turkish Atomic Energy Authority)
