Billy Fork is 33 and he lives in Oklahoma, where cigarettes cost $8 a pack. Ever since the age 10 his best friend Anthony Spoon gave Billy a cigarette. He has been addicted to nicotine, he cannot go a day without smoking at least a half a pack of cigarettes everyday. At the age of 28 Billy was diagnosed with stage 2 lung cancer. His life hasn't even started and it was about to end. If cigarettes would have cost a little bit more, maybe Billy would not of have been able to support his habits for all these years.
In 2014 each year an estimated 443,000 people die from tobacco use die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and
another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking. Despite these risks, approximately 46.6 million U.S. adults smoke
cigarettes. Smokeless tobacco, cigars, and pipes also have deadly
consequences, including lung and oral cancers. If the cost of cigarettes were higher the death rate would go down in the nation.
If you cared about your family enough you would want to live longer to make sure that their okay.
So why would you put yourself in danger. Secondhand smoke exposure causes serious disease and death, including heart disease and lung cancer in nonsmoking adults and sudden infant death syndrome, more frequent and severe asthma attacks in children. Each year because of exposure to secondhand smoke, more than 46,000 die of heart disease, and about 150,000–300,000 children younger than 18 months have lower respiratory tract infections.At the end of the day if you cared about your family you would not smoke cigarettes.
CDC also promotes MPOWER, a package of six proven strategies identified by the World Health Organization that can help reduce tobacco use and tobacco-related illness and death.
Monitor tobacco use and prevention policies.
Protect people from tobacco smoke.
Offer help to quit tobacco use.
Warn about the dangers of tobacco.
Enforce bans on tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship.
Raise taxes on tobacco.
If you cared about your family enough you would want to live longer to make sure that their okay.
So why would you put yourself in danger. Secondhand smoke exposure causes serious disease and death, including heart disease and lung cancer in nonsmoking adults and sudden infant death syndrome, more frequent and severe asthma attacks in children. Each year because of exposure to secondhand smoke, more than 46,000 die of heart disease, and about 150,000–300,000 children younger than 18 months have lower respiratory tract infections.At the end of the day if you cared about your family you would not smoke cigarettes.
CDC also promotes MPOWER, a package of six proven strategies identified by the World Health Organization that can help reduce tobacco use and tobacco-related illness and death.
Monitor tobacco use and prevention policies.
Protect people from tobacco smoke.
Offer help to quit tobacco use.
Warn about the dangers of tobacco.
Enforce bans on tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship.
Raise taxes on tobacco.
