Put out that ciggie

The global stats on tobacco usage are mind-blowing:

There are more than one billion smokers in the world!

Globally, use of tobacco products is increasing, although it is decreasing in high-income countries.

More than 80% of the world's smokers live in low-and middle-income countries.

Almost half of the world's children breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke.

Cigarette smoke contains over 4,700 chemical compounds including 60 known carcinogens.
Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 85% of lung cancers and is also associated with cancers of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, oesophagus, stomach, pancreas, uterine cervix, kidney, ureter, bladder and colon.

Tobacco use kills 5.4 million people a year - an average of one person every six seconds - and accounts for one in 10 adult deaths worldwide.

21% of Americans smoke.

The likelihood of smoking generally increases as annual incomes decrease (exception occurs among those making less than $6,000 per year).

In the U.S. 23% of men and 19% of women smoke.

Blacks are the most likely to smoke (23%) and Asians are least likely to smoke (12%). Hispanics and whites fall in between, at 17% and 20%, respectively.