10 interesting facts about smoking

1. Each eight seconds in the world 1 person which cause of death is tobacco dies;
2. China is the native land of 300 million smokers which consume approximately 1.7 billion cigarettes a year, or 3 million cigarettes a minute. In China of the population of 20 % of globe and 25 % of all smokers. Here it is made more cigarettes, than in any other country;
3. Cigarettes - the most sold product all over the world! Annually in the different countries 1 billion «smoking sticks» is on sale approximately. The tobacco industry - the most profitable manufacture all over the world: the annual turn makes 400 billion US dollars;
4. According to the data of the World Organization of Public health services, about 25 % of all sold cigarettes – counterfeit;
5. For 5 thousand 300 dollars the stub of the cigarette smoked last seconds before in New Zealand has left from Internet auction the interdiction for smoking in public places has come into force;
6. In 2010 the termination of clinical tests of a vaccine against smoking is expected. Its action consists in formation of antibodies in blood which interfere with nicotine receipt in a brain. The immune system perceives nicotine as alien substance and completely deactivates its action on an organism. The smoker does not receive any pleasure from a cigarette;
7. In the beginning of 20th century to pregnant women not to grow stout, doctors advised to smoke;
8. The owner of hotel «Sacred Bonifatsy» (Canada) rented the written off school bus which has parked on a backyard, having whispered about it to smokers. Idea have picked up and in other countries, having nicknamed such smoking-rooms Butt bus;
9. In Holland tobacco smoking is strictly forbidden, but here if the cigarette of tobacco does not contain – then please! So in Holland it is more safe to smoke a grass;
10. 95 % of smokers after the transferred heart attack of a myocardium give up smoking at once. It is not necessary neither lectures, nor arrangements, patients make the decision (!!!).