TOBACCO DEATHS
BY: TARA CROSBY
INTRODUCTION
More than 2,500 underage teenagers try their first cigarette and get hooked each day in the US. Tobacco causing deaths are the most preventable out of alcohol, car accidents, illegal drugs, murders, and suicides. Why is the most preventable thing the leading cause of death then?
YEARLY
EVERY YEAR 443,00 PEOPLE DIE FROM TOBACCO CAUSES IN THE US. WORLDWIDE, MORE THAN 6 MILLION ALL TOGETHER ARE DYING.
DAILY
EACH DAY ABOUT 13,293 DIE JUST FROM TOBACCO.
SECONDLY
EVERY 6.5 SECONDS A FORMER SMOKER DIES.
CLOSING
5.6 million teenagers under 18 that are alive today will end up dying from smoking unless smoking rates decline. There are many statistics to explain why you should not become a tobacco user, but out of all of these numbers you have heard just remember the number one. That one is you. You are the only one that controls your future to be long or short. Don't make the wrong decision.