I need some interesting facts about secondhand smoking. like ones i could put on a poster to grab peoples attn

Please list as many as possible. its on a poster i am going to be using at a health fair. and im having trouble thinking of interesting facts. please , these facts need to be true and not things that have just been said between people

The numbers are in and they are not good. You have to want to quit smoking in order to finally kick the habit and overcome your nicotine addiction, and sometimes it takes some scary facts like these to help you get started. Here are 10 interesting facts about smoking:

* About 1 out of every 5 deaths in the US can be attributed to tobacco products.

* Every eight seconds, someone in the world dies due to tobacco.

* Cigarette smoke contains 11 chemical compounds that are known to cause cancer.

* 1 out of 3 smokers are estimated to eventually die from a tobacco-related disease.

* Over 50,000 people a year die from secondhand smoke in the US alone.

* In the 1980s, tobacco companies started working on making fire-safe cigarettes. Ones that would be less likely to ignite furniture or clothing and cause fires. As of 2002, only one of the hundreds of U.S. cigarette brands uses fire safe technology, and cigarettes are still the number one cause of fire-related deaths.

* In the US, smoking causes about 445 new cases of lung cancer every day.

* Tobacco kills more Americans than AIDS, drugs, homicides, fires, and auto accidents combined.

* Cigarette smoke contains benzene, carbon monoxide, arsenic, hydrogen cyanide and polonium 210.





Exposure to secondhand smoke has been strongly linked with a higher incidence of asthma, respiratory infections (including pneumonia), and ear infections in children. Children exposed to passive smoke are hospitalized more frequently, and have a higher chance of dying from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).



Food service workers appear to be 50% more likely than the general population to develop lung cancer, largely because many of them are exposed to secondhand smoke on the job.

Besides causing disease, secondhand smoke also exacerates a number of pre-existing health conditions, including some allergies, asthma, bronchitis, other respiratory ailments, and heart disease.

Cigarette smoke contains over 4,700 chemicals, over 200 poisons, and over 50 human carcinogens. The poisons in cigarette smoke include carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, and methyl isocyanate. The carcinogens in cigarette smoke include benzo[a]pyrene and NNK, which cause lung cancer; nitrosamines, which cause cancer of the lung, respiratory system, and other organs; aromatic amines, which cause bladder and breast cancer; formaldehyde, which causes nasal cancer; and benzene, which causes leukemia. The carcinogen NNK has been found in nonsmokers who have been exposed to secondhand smoke.
Each year environmental tobacco smoke kills approximately 53,000 Americans, the same number of Americans killed in the Vietnam War. (Action on Smoking and Health, Special Report, Involuntary Smoking: The Factual Basis for Action, 1993)

breathing in 1 pack worth of secondhand smoke is equal to smoking 4 cigarettes