Nearly a billion people on the planet earth smoked cigarettes on a daily basis in 2012, a new report reveals.
That’s a big increase from previous years, although the percentage of the earth’s population that smokes has shrunk considerably according to the researchers – whose data was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
A total of 967 million people smoke regularly – up from 721 million in 1980. However that’s due mostly to the world’s skyrocketing population, as the percentage of male smokers has actually declined from 41 to 31 percent since 1980 while the percentage of female smokers has fallen from 10 to 6 percent over the same time period.
All told, 6.25 trillion individual cigarettes were smoked in 2012 – up from 4.9 trillion in 1980.
An estimated 43.8 million Americans – or 19 percent of all adults – are smokers, according to the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in America, claiming an estimated 440,000 lives each year.
Of course there’s no disputing the fact that it looks sexy as hell … so … choose accordingly.
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SEXY? You still think that? Guess those anti-smoking commercials haven’t quite done their job.
Met a young woman recently who had her 6th case of pneumonia around the holidays. She has COPD. She was never a smoker but her parents and grandparents were, so she is the poster child for the effects of 2nd hand smoke. I’ m all for charting your own destiny but it is a shame when you take an innocent down. No choice.
Smoking cigarettes, sexy? Yeah, uh, no. It’s a pretty big turn-off if you ask me, as the first thing that comes to mind is that the smoker is an idiot for buying cancer sticks.
We all have our vices, but cigarettes are absolutely one of the dumbest.
The great thing about Obamacare is that if you are poor you can get your insurance subsidized partially while smoking it up.
The only men that would find smoking sexy are the ones with a cigarette-sized penis.
Rumor has it that as Sic was makin’ out with the Govahness in the back of the darkened SUV and it was gettin’ real hot and heavy, he reached down and pulled *lil Willie* out and then slowly,yet purposefully, guided her had to it.
Even in the darkness, he could see the glint of shock in her brown subcontinental eyes…
“Will….you know I don’t smoke!”, she exclaimed…….
TBG’s ghostwriting services are also available. *wink wink nudge nudge*
Nikki doesn’t smoke, let;s follow her and the T-Pubs, Horray for SC !!!
During my days as a young cadet at The Citadel, I always went for the hot chicks that smoked at the bars. Everyone knows that if she puts a cigarette in her mouth, she has no problem putting a d!ck in it. #wordsofwisdom
Exactly, there’s a reason they call it “smoking cock”.
I didn’t read this until I had posted a similar comment. Women who smoke tend to be easier than those who don’t.
I don’t think a woman smoking is sexy, but it does make her look easy. If a woman will put a cigarette in her mouth she will put a ……
might as well kiss an ashtray.smoking is an automatic deal breaker
back when propaganda,was changed to PR,by Freud’s nephew,his campaign
to lure women into smoking was very successful.they were called, ‘freedom torches’
they’ve killed a good many of my friends ..
Wow! I agree with 9″?? I guess Hell really did freeze over.
You never know: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwASii2f5c8