Thunder Bay District Health Unit : Tobacco Facts

Looking for the truth about tobacco use?

Here are the highlights:

Tobacco kills 45,000 Canadians every year.
In Ontario, 33 people die every day from tobacco products.
Second-Hand smoke kills almost 8,000 people each year.
There are more than 4,000 chemicals in each lit cigarette, including arsenic and formaldehyde.
Cigarette smoke is the leading cause of lung disease for women and men.
Women who smoke during pregnancy have a higher chance of complications.
There is no such thing as a safer or healthier cigarette or commercial tobacco product.
Tobacco is the only commercial product on the market that will kill you if used as intended.
Tobacco-related diseases cost the Ontario economy at least $1.7 billion for health care annually, result in more than $2.6 billion in productivity losses and account for at least 500,000 hospital days each year.

Did you know...

that 4/5 Canadians do not smoke? Are you in the majority?
of the smokers in Canada, half are ready to quit?
that initially the withdrawal from nicotine in tobacco products can make you feel nauseous, irritable, and anxious, but that these symptoms won't last forever?
that quitting smoking will re-energize you, give you a zest for life, not to mention make you extraordinarlily handsome or lovely?
that if you never start, you'll never have to quit?

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