• Nearly one out of every four Medicare dollars spent on hospital care is due to substance abuse -- totalling $20 billion out of the $87 billion spent on such care in fiscal year 1994. Eighty percent of that -- $16 billion -- paid for care for smoking-related disease and disabilities.
• Cigarette smoking is the largest single drain on the Medicare Trust Fund, poised to take $800 billion over the next 20 years, according to a study of hospital records and epidemiological studies. .
• Only 11 percent of those polled said they felt tobacco companies told the entire truth about health issues. Forty-five percent said they felt they were mostly truthful but were hiding something, and 38 percent said the companies were mostly lying.
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• In 1990, 7,993 deaths in Washington state were tobacco-related. This is compared to 3,024 deaths caused by automobile accidents, suicides, alcohol, AIDS, drugs, homicides, and fires combined. .
• Lung Cancer is the state's leading cause of cancer deaths for both men and women. In 1988, over 81 percent - 1,984 of the total 2,444 lung cancer deaths were caused by cigarette smoking.
• In 1988, Washington state citizens had an estimated 1,374,419 days of disability due to smoking-attributable disease, costing $101.3 million. .
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• In 1988, direct medical care for smoking-attributable disease in Washington cost an estimated $263.9 million. .
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• The total economic impact of smoking-related illness and death in Washington state for 1988 is estimated between $760.4 million and 924.4 million. .
• The direct medical costs associated with smoking totaled $50 billion in 1993. For each of the 24 billion packs of cigarettes sold in the U.S. in 1993, $2.00 was spent on avoidable health-care costs due to smoking. .
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• Smoking is responsible for an estimated 7 percent of total U.
In my opinion, I believe that smoking should be completely banned. ... Most people start smoking around the age of twelve to fourteen. ... To balance the number of people who start though; about 1,200 people die from smoking each day, which leads up to about 1,438,000 deaths from smoking a year. ... (Internet) Why is Smoking so bad for you? ... (Boughton) What are the risks of smoking? ...
Smoking Project INDEX Dangers of Smoking Smoking and Cancer Tobacco cause Blood Clots Smoking inhibits fertility Smoking during Pregnancy Passive smoking harms children Heart Patients have everything to gain Smoking gets in your eyes Smoking passes the time Smoking to overcome difficult situations What goes into Tobacco The Chemical Factory Nicotine replacement products Withdrawal symptoms Questions and Answers about Smoking 20 S...
WELLNESS I - PRESENTATION Smoking is Hazardous to your Health 1.Statistics a.Cigarette smoking is the single most important preventable cause of illness and early death. ... ii.1/3, or 125,000, of all cancer deaths are attributable to smoking... (1)Several types of cancer are directly caused by smoking. ... While non-smoking 30 year olds can expect to reach the age of 82.7 years old. ... c.Some of the damage done by smoking, can be reversed once you've stopped, however, some can't. ...
SMOKING AND HEALTH Smoking is an addictive menace posing not only a health hazard for the smoker but also to people surrounding the smoker. ... Even if they quit smoking during pregnancy, about 40000 new babies would not die each year. ... This simple rule should be the basis of all policy on smoking in public area. ... Media Quit smoking training sessions be conducted for smokers. ... Quit smoking before it kills you and your near and dear ones....
How smoking affects women "We are losing too many of our mothers and daughters prematurely as a result of smoking." ... (Why quit smoking?) ... Because a lot of women believe that smoking can help them lose weight, they keep on smoking. ... I have asthma because of smoking. ... (Women and Smoking) Smoking during pregnancy is the most dangerous thing that women can do. ...
In parts of Europe, drinking and smoking are open to parental discretion, and these countries have less problems with drinking and smoking than here in America. Indeed, smoking can cause serious risks to one's health. ... With the legal smoking age set at any age, more negatives than positives are the result. A second age requirement law that has to do with cigarette smoking is the use of coupons. ... This shows how inconsistent laws on smoking are in this country. ...
SMOKING Smoking, is it a social issue or a health problem? Smoking has been almost a required social behavior through out the ages, but today the major issue is the health problem smoking causes to smokers and non-smokers. ... Another major social issue is second hand smoking. ... Flores 3 Smoking causes a great health risk to smokers and non-smokers. ... About 420,000 people die of smoking related cause per year. ...
My goal today is to not only inform you of the risks of smoking, but to persuade you to quit or to never try smoking. ... But its not just dropouts that are smoking, 10.9% of people with 16yrs or more of education are smoking. ... These kids will die from smoking because smoking is very unhealthy and each cigarette takes 7 minutes off your life. Smoking is one of the most leading causes of death. ... And although smoking is very very addictive, there are methods used to quit smoking for good. ...
Abstract Smoking strikes many college campuses around the country. ... Smoking Strikes College Students Smoking is a serious problem that affects millions of students in the United States. ... The horrible effects smoking has on one's body were soon discovered. ... Smoking also increases the risk of having a stroke by fifty percent. ... Cancer is the principal disease associated with smoking. ...
Recent studies on the number of deaths as a result of smoking confirmed that eight out of ten people affected with diseases affiliated with smoking were a cause of second hand smoke. Laws are in the process of being passed to make certain places completely non-smoking. ... Wont someone be unhappy no matter what the decision about banning smoking is? ... Also, bars must limit their smoking section to only 20% of the whole bar (OCAT). ... The majority seems to have a neutral attitude towards the new smoking laws. ...
