Smoking Facts and Fiction

The smoking facts show the dangers of cigarette smoking.

Diseases directly related to the harmful effects of tobacco use kill 650 million people annually and nicotine is one of the main causes of drug addiction around the globe.

Cigarette smoking is bad for you, but you already know that. You do not need a website to tell you that.

You need a website to help you understand why you ignore all the facts about smoking diseases and the harmful effects of tobacco.

What you need is to more fully understand why you continue place yourself at risk for the many smoking effects on the body and ignore the real and compelling dangers of cigarette smoking.

And that is why this website will also explore smoking fiction.

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What is Smoking Addiction Fiction?

Smoking fiction is the package of lies you tell yourself to dismiss your smoking behaviour as harmless or insignificant or not important.

Cigarette marketers use smoking addiction fiction all the time. It helps them create an attractive veil over the many harmful effects of tobacco. They portray their products as harmless social devices that promote youth, vigor, and heightened sexuality.

You may have believed this smoking fiction when you got your first taste of tobacco (see Why Do People Smoke?)

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Smoking Facts about the Harmful Effects of Tobacco

• There are 1.3 billion smokers worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 50% of these will die of tobacco related diseases - that means approximately 650 million people worldwide will die as a direct results of the effects of cigarette smoking


• By 2025 smoking diseases will claim 1.7 billion lives.


• Low income nations and those with a rising middle class continue to see an annual increase in the numbers of the people in their smoking population.


• Annually consumers spend over $400 billion on tobacco products worldwide, yet many countries continue to struggle with funding for health care, education and other public services.


• Criminal groups and organized crime are involved in cigarette smuggling as long as there is a demand for the product.


• Cigarette smoking costs governments staggering amounts of money annually in direct and indirect costs including morbidity, mortality, loss of productivity, fires, deaths, and law and bylaw enforcement. These losses exceed any revenue that a government could make through taxation or direct sale of cigarettes.


• Mental and Behavioural Disorder due to the use of Tobacco is a classification (Chapter 5 -block F17) in the International Classification of Diseases maintained by the WHO.

And there is more, much more. In fact there is such a staggering body of evidence about the many harmful effects of tobacco, it would be impossible to present it all on a single website.

The harmful effects of tobacco are now so well established that smoking diseases have been identified that affect every organ in the body. To date just about the only disease not related to smoking is athlete's foot!

I haven't yet found any evidence that foot fungus is in anyway one of the dangers of cigarette smoking. That doesn't mean the evidence doesn't exist, it's just that I haven't found it yet.

You can't lose your toes to foot fungus anyway, but you might lose your toes or even your whole foot to Buerger's disease which is a smoking related disease found only among smokers.

So you won't find a page here about foot fungus. But you will find many more interesting pages about the smoking facts and...

• breast cancer
• cataracts
• skin care and wrinkles
• erectile dysfunction
• diabetes
• lung diseases related to smoking

...and much more compelling evidence about the smoking effects on the body, the real dangers of cigarette smoking, and the human suffering caused by the harmful effects of tobacco and many of the poisonous ingredients in cigarettes, as well as what happens when you inhale the chemicals contained in a cigarette.

I will even give you some tips to stop smoking cold turkey and facts about radioactive cigarette ingredients.

The smoking facts reveal the real dangers of cigarette smoking.

Smoking addiction fiction reveals the reasons why you ignore them.