thought all of u should know this


The Effects of Nicotine Addiction
Nicotine is one of the most heavily used addictive drugs in the United States. In 2002, 30 percent of the U.S. population 12 and older, or 71.5 million people, used tobacco at least once in the month prior to being interviewed. This figure includes 3.8 million young people age 12 to 17; 14 million people age 18 to 25; and 53.7 million age 26 and older.* Most of them were cigarette smokers.

Cigarette smoking has been the most popular method of taking nicotine since the beginning of the 20th century. In 1989, the U.S. Surgeon General issued a report that concluded that cigarettes and other forms of tobacco, such as cigars, pipe tobacco, and chewing tobacco, are addictive and that nicotine is the drug in tobacco that causes addiction.

The report also determined that smoking was a major cause of stroke and the third leading cause of death in the United States.

Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, causing more than 440,000 deaths each year, and resulting in an annual cost of more than $75 billion in direct medical costs.

From terry martin
http://quitsmoking.about.com/od/nic...tineeffects.htm

So think thrice before smoking