TOBACCO USE

Tobacco is one of the most cause of death. Do you think that kids listen to their parents when they tell them this? NO, they dont cause kids still become tobacco users. Over 3,000 kids become smokers each day, but they dont intend to become life long users. But yet they do. 95% of high school kids who smoke dont think they will be smokinng in 5 years, yet 75% of them become long term users. Based on teen smoking statistics fully one out of two (50%) teens who start smoking each day will become addicted. Nicotine compares the addictive potential for drugs such as heroin and cocaine. An inhaled dose of nicotine is in the brain in 7 seconds, less time than it takes a dose of narcotic or cocaine to reach the same site. One of the most concerning aspects about smoking is that its use among adolescent and is at an all time high. Current teen smokers out number any of the previous generations of adolescent smokers as well as the current adult population. Death from tobacco caused disease exceeds the total combined annual death toll from drugs, alcohol, firearms, sexually related disease, toxins and pollutants, motor vehicle accidents, and infectious disease. (see graph below) Actual causes of Death, United States