Nicotine is addictive and tobacco kills.

You've heard it for years, but you may be confused by all the claims. Here are just a few of the facts.

  • Smoking kills more people than alcohol, AIDS, car accidents, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined. - Institute of Medicine, 1994

  • Nicotine addiction can begin within days or weeks of smoking a first cigarette, even among occasional users. - Mayo Clinic/Univ of Mass Study

  • 7,800 Wisconsin residents die each year from smoking.

  • Tobacco is responsible for 26,500 stroke deaths a year in the U.S. - U.S. News and World Report 1/23/89, p. 9

  • Women who smoke double their risk of cervical cancer. - Journal of the National Cancer Institute

  • Tobacco causes about 70% of the 30,000 cases of oral cancer each year in the US, and is responsible for about 5600 of the 8000 yearly deaths from oral cancer. - JAMA, 4/27/94, p. 1232.

  • Smoking doubles the risk for bladder cancer. - American Cancer Society

  • More women die from lung cancer than from breast cancer. - American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts & Figures, 1996

  • Nearly 90% of adult smokers began at or before age 18. - A report from the Surgeon General, 1994

  • In a study of 12 and 13 year olds, it was found that after only a few cigarettes, tobacco addiction occurred. - Medical College of Wisconsin Physicians & Clinics - Health Link

  • Nicotine is one of the most heavily used addictive drugs in the United States. It is highly addictive. The ingestion of nicotine results in an almost immediate "kick". Stimulation is then followed by depression and fatigue, leading the abuser to seek more nicotine. - National Institute of Drug Abuse

  • 75 % of all teenagers who smoke have parents who smoke. - JAMA, June 24, 1992, page 3282 (M. Males)

  • Each day, more than 3,000 kids become regular smokers - that is more than one million kids a year. Roughly one-third of them will eventually die from a tobacco-related disease - Center for Disease Control

  • Young children who are exposed to secondhand smoke have a much higher rate of tooth decay than children who do not grow up around smokers.

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The tobacco industry has been lying to the American public for years. They have targeted the teens of Wisconsin and other states, they have used deceptive marketing practices and they continue to spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year to addict more people to their deadly product.

Had Enough? Following are just a few facts and statements.

  • "We don't smoke the crap. We just sell it. We reserve the right to smoke for the young, the poor, the blacks and the stupid" - R.J. Reynolds executive on the question of why their chief personnel do not smoke, 1994

  • "Tobacco industry reports on their (health) research are magnificent works of fiction…When we put money in for research we put the research in straightjackets so that the people were limited on how far they looked - and if they came beyond a certain point which would reflect badly on the tobacco industry, it came to an end." - Tony Van den Bergh, former Tobacco Industry Executive, Godfrey Philips Tobacco Company

  • "When CTR researchers found that cigarettes were bad and it was better not to smoke, we didn't publicize that." - Dorothea Cohen, former Council for Tobacco Research employee

  • Read more key quotes showing how tobacco companies lie

  • The myths and the reality of what tobacco companies are saying

  • Learn more about some of tobacco's dirty tricks

 

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