Cigarette smoking  causes more deaths than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, murders, suicides, illegal drugs, and fires - combined.7
Over 70% of adolescent smokers wish they had never started smoking in the first place.8
Kids who smoke just one cigarette per week can experience coughing and shortness of breath.9
 Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including ammonia (floor/toilet cleaner), arsenic (rat poison), formaldehyde (body tissue preserver), and hydrogen cyanide (gas chamber poison).10
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On average, a pack-a-day smoker spends from $690 to $980 a year on cigarettes - that's enough to buy at least 46 music CD's.11
The World Health Organization has predicted that by the year 2025, 500 million people worldwide will have died from a tobacco-related illness. That is an entire Vietnam War every day for 27 years, or a Titanic sinking every 43 minutes for 27 years.12
Most teens who smoke are addicted to nicotine. They want to quit, but experience the same cravings, frustration, irritability, and anxiety that adults do when they try to kick the habit.9
Smoking increases your risk of early tooth loss.13
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Seventy-two percent of high school seniors  consider smoking a dirty habit, and say they'd rather date someone who doesn't smoke.9
The effects of smoking include coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, bad breath,  wrinkles, yellow teeth and nails, and addiction to a toxic chemical.13
Spit- tobacco, or "chew," cigars, and bidis are not safe alternatives to cigarettes; low-tar and additive-free cigarettes are not safe either.14
The fact is, most kids don't smoke.15
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