These statistics about smoking have been collected from a great number of fields of research from around the world.  These statistics make sobering reading. 
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Facts

• Tobacco kills 10,000 people EVERY DAY worldwide (3.6 million per year). Tobacco is expected to be the biggest single cause of death in the world in the next 25 to 30 years.
• Smoking kills 400,000 people a year in the United States alone, that’s almost 1,100 every day. The figures for the UK are around 121,000 people a year, or approximately 330 per day. • Approximately 38% die of cancer, 28% die a slow and agonizing death from chronic lung disease and emphysema, and the other 34% die of heart disease and other circulatory problems.
• It has been estimated, that just 1/60th of a gramme of nicotine on your tongue can kill a person in minutes.  
• Tobacco companies are well aware that it is mainly young people who start smoking. It is for this reason that they target their advertising towards young people wherever they can. They know that they have to attract a given number of new smokers every day, to counteract the number of people that die due to smoking.
• 300,000 children under 18 months old develop bronchitis and pneumonia every year in the United States, due to the effects of passive smoking.
• Hypnosis has been shown to be one of the most effective ways to stop smoking of all methods of stopping smoking. 
• Parents smoking directly causes asthma, coughs and wheezes and even middle ear infections in children.
• Teenagers are more than twice as likely to smoke if both their parents smoke.
• Smoking during pregnancy causes babies to be born with a reduced birth weight. Around 4,000 babies a year, in the United States alone, die directly as a result of their mothers smoking during pregnancy.
• A UK smoker who smokes around 30 cigarettes per day, will spend around £2,600 per year on their habit.
• Feline lymphoma is a form of cancer affecting cats who live in homes where people smoke.
• In affluent countries, smoking is one of the most common causes of blindness.

• Following surgical operations, smokers will find that their wounds take longer to heal than non-smokers, due to the collagen fibre levels in the body being depleted. Smokers may also find that their healing wounds may be prone to rupture. This can often prove to be fatal, especially in cases of bowel surgery, for example.
Pneumonia, collapsed lungs, and other such complications of complete anaesthesia, are four times more likely in smokers than in non-smokers.
• Thromboses of the heart and brain are the most common causes of sudden death. Smokers are very susceptible to thromboses, on average developing the disease some ten years before non-smokers.
• Women who smoke during pregnancy, increase the child’s likelihood to die during childbirth, to double that of a non-smoking mother. Should the child survive childbirth, it is also twice as likely to die during it’s early years, and twice as likely to die of sudden infant death syndrome (‘SIDS’ or ‘cot death’).
• New born babies who breastfeed from mothers who smoke, have as much nicotine in their blood as their mothers do.
• The risk of brain haemorrhage is highest in women smokers, and is even higher if she also takes the contraceptive pill.
• Smoking is one of the major causes of male impotence, increasing the risk of erectile dysfunction by some 50%, and affecting as many as 120,000 males in the UK alone. It has been reported that a male experiencing erectile dysfunction, should take this as a warning that blood vessels are being damaged, and this includes the blood vessels in and around the heart.

What's in a cigarette?
Nicotine is the most widely known chemical in tobacco smoke, but many people are amazed to discover that there are over 4,500 other chemicals produced when tobacco burns. Most of these have incomprehensible names and are really only known to scientists and chemical analysts. Listed below, though, are some of the more well known ones.
CADMIUM, CARBON MONOXIDE, CARBON DIOXIDE, AMMONIA, PROPANE, METHANE, METHANOL, NICKEL COMPOUNDS, BENZENE, ISOPRENE, HYDROGEN SULPHIDE, ACREOLIN, ACETONE, HYDROCYANIC ACID, HYDROGEN CYANIDE, CREOSOL, METHYL NITRATE, NITROGEN OXIDE, DDT, PYRIDINE, TAR, FORMALDEHYDE, BUTADIONE, NICOTINE

Most additives are not necessary and few were used before 1970. There is cause for concern in the following areas.
• Additives are used to make cigarettes that provide high levels of 'free' nicotine which increases the addictive 'kick' of the nicotine. Ammonium compounds can fulfil this role by raising the alkalinity of smoke
• Additives are used to enhance the taste of tobacco smoke, to make the product more desirable to consumers. Although seemingly innocuous the addition of flavourings making the cigarette 'attractive' and 'palatable' is in itself cause for concern.
• Sweeteners and chocolate may help to make cigarettes more palatable to children and first time users; eugenol and menthol numb the throat so the smoker cannot feel the smoke's aggravating effects.
• Additives such as cocoa may be used to dilate the airways allowing the smoke an easier and deeper passage into the lungs exposing the body to more nicotine and higher levels of tar.
• Some additives are toxic or addictive in their own right or in combination. When additives are burned, new products of combustion are formed and these may be toxic or pharmacologically active.
• Additives are used to mask the smell and visibility of side-stream smoke, making it harder for people to protect themselves and undermining claims that smoking is anti-social without at the same time reducing the health risks of passive smoking.'

And if you want to know the full list of chemicals that can be found in a cigarette, click here.