Fire's Out

On No Tobacco Day

I am impressed to learn

there are more

ex-smokers than smokers!

Apparently, 81% of Aussies

 do not smoke. 

(About 80% of smokers

have tried to quit at least once.)

 Sadly, about 50% of

Australia’s Aboriginal population

 are smokers. 

The earlier you start smoking,

the longer you will smoke

and the more cigarettes

you will get through…

also, you will have a

harder time quitting.

 About 93% of kids aged 12-17

 do not smoke! 

Ok, so why smoke?

  Truly? 

Here’s what you breathe i

n each time you take in

a lungful of cigarette smoke:

4000 chemicals –

69 of them are known

 to cause cancer.

Here’s some of the chemicals:

tar, ammonia, floor cleaner,

 stuff found in industrial solvents

and paint stripper,

nicotine (the addictive bit),

 carbon monoxide,

the poison used in gas chambers

 in WWII,

lead, nickel, white ant poison,

stuff from car batteries,

pesticides,

stuff found in moth balls

 and petrol…

Why would you?? 

Really! 

If that is not reason enough

– lets go environmental…

3.6 million Aussie Rules fields

 worth of trees are destroyed

each year for the tobacco industry.

  A year’s worth of

Aussie cigarette butts,

 joined end to end,

would circle the planet 16 times!

7 billion of these butts

are littered in Australia

each year. 

Apparently, 7% of bushfires

are started from cigarette butts

– and 14 deaths each year result.

 Cigarette butts take a year

to break down in fresh water

and 5 years to break down

in the ocean.

Butts have been found

in the stomachs of sea animals. 

In the ocean, the butts leech

chemicals into the water.

  It really does seem

that the world would be

 a much better place

without cigarettes…

    Photo from here.