15 facts about smoking.

1. At the beginning of the 20th century, pregnant women not to gain weight, doctors advised to smoke.

2. In 1588, a resident of Virginia, Thomas Harriet began to promote daily tobacco smoking as a way to the general improvement of the body. Unfortunately, he soon died of cancer of the nose.

3. Tobacco shrub native to the Americas, it belongs to the same family as the potato and pepper.

4. Chronic bronchitis in smokers is recorded 5-7 times more likely than non-smokers. Subsequently, chronic bronchitis and emphysema complicated pneumosclerosis, disease significantly impairs the function of the lungs.

5. In the world there are 120 ways to treat tobacco dependence (almost 40 applies).

6. Over 5 thousand 300 dollars left from Internet auction stub cigarettes smoked in the last seconds before the New Zealand came into effect a ban on smoking in public places.

7. In 1571, the Spanish doctor Nicolas Mondares wrote a book about the healing plants of the New World. There he wrote that tobacco could cure 36 diseases.

8. The main reason for the high incidence of smoking - it is for some time concealed the ravages of smoking creates the impression of his seemingly harmless.

9. Tobacco smoke contains over 3,000 chemical compounds, some of which are carcinogenic, that is capable of damaging the genetic material of cells and trigger cancer growth.

10. 10% of smokers become ill and subsequently die from cancer (among smoked more than 20 cigarettes per day - 20%).

11. Smoking significantly increases the effect of human exposure to other harmful factors. For example, if you regularly drink alcoholic beverages, but not smoking, the risk of cancer of the mouth, larynx and esophagus increased by 2-3 times, then consuming the same amount of alcohol and active smokers - already more than 9 times.

12. Smokers myocardial infarction sick 2-8 times more likely than non-smokers. At the same time, smokers are 3-4 times more likely to die suddenly from coronary heart disease in the background seems to be a normal state of health.

13. 95% of smokers after myocardial infarction immediately quit smoking. Do not need no lectures, no persuasion, patients are free to decide.

14. In 1965, prohibits television advertising of tobacco products in the UK (it would take 40 years to come to this Russian).

15. After a long competition with «Coca Cola» trademark «Marlboro» recognized as the most expensive brand among consumer goods in the eighties and nineties. It is estimated at $ 30 billion.