SMOKE – The Convenient Truth [1st place Worlds Best Presentation Contest] by Empowered Presentations
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- 1. sm ke TheConvenientTruth
- 2. 1.1 There are billion in the world today. smokers
- 3. and if current trends continue
- 4. billion that number is 1.6 by the year 2025. increase TO expected to
- 5. 3oomillion china is home to smokers
- 6. who consume approximately
- 7. cigarettes a year, 1.7trillion
- 8. or…
- 9. cigarettes a minute. 3million
- 10. Worldwide. 1Omillion
- 11. are sold each day, 15billion
- 12. 5trillionare produced and used and upwards of on an annual basis.
- 13. 5 trillion cigarette filters weigh approximately
- 14. 48o,538Bugatti Veyrons,
- 15. 25
- 16. 25,ooosemi trucks,
- 17. 2,5oo747s,
- 18. 1ocargo ships…or
- 19. billionpounds!2
- 20. It's estimated that
- 21. trillions of filters,
- 22. filled with toxic chemicals from tobacco smoke,
- 23. make their way into our environment as
- 24. discarded waste yearly.
- 25. While they may look like
- 26. white cotton,
- 27. cigarette filters are made OF A PLASTIC called of very thin fibers
- 28. cellulose acetate.
- 29. A cigarette filter can take between
- 30. to decompose. 18 months and 1oyears
- 31. A typical manufactured approximately cigarette contains
- 32. 8 or 9 milligrams OF NICOTINE,
- 33. while the nicotine content of a cigar is
- 34. 1oo to 2oo milligrams,
- 35. with some as high as
- 36. 4oo milligrams.
- 37. four or five cigarettes to There is enough nicotine in
- 38. kill an average adult if ingested whole.
- 39. Whale Vomitis one of the hundreds Ambergris, otherwise known as of possible additives used in manufactured cigarettes.
- 40. Radioactive lead are both present in low levels in cigarette smoke. and polonium
- 41. toxic byproducts present hydrogen cyanide, one of the in cigarette smoke,
- 42. genocidal chemical agent was used as a during World War ll.
- 43. 5oSecondhand smoke cancer-causing chemical compounds, contains more than
- 44. 11of which are known to be group 1 carcinogens.
- 45. Kids are still picking up smoking at the alarming rate of
- 46. in the U.S., 3,oooaday
- 47. 8o,oooand
- 48. 1oo,oooa day worldwide. to
- 49. 1 in 5 teens age 13 to 15
- 50. smoke cigarettes.
- 51. Halfofall long-termsmokers
- 52. will die a tobacco-related death.
- 53. Every…
- 54. eight…
- 55. seconds,
- 56. A HUMAN
- 57. life is lost
- 58. to tobacco USE
- 59. somewhere
- 60. in the world.
- 61. Thattranslatestoapproximately
- 62. 5milliondeaths annually.
- 63. Tobacco use is expected to claim
- 64. the population of the United states
- 65. 3 the population of the United states x
- 66. one billion livesthis century
- 67. unless serious anti-smoking efforts are made on a
- 68. global level.
- 69. The Convenient Truth Doyourpart.Spread overall education category
- 70. Seewhatelse issmokin?
- 71. credits:WHO/WPRO – Smoking Statistics 28 May 2002. World Health Organization. Cigarette Litter – How Many? Clean Virginia Waterways – Longwood University. Cigarette Litter – Biodegradable? Clean Virginia Waterways – Longwood University. The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General 2004. Dept. of Health and Human Resources – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nicotine – IDLH Documentation 16 August 1996. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Radioactive Cigarettes 02 April 1980. Tobacco Documents Online. The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon Generals 04 Jan 2007. U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services. Shutterstock – http://www.shutterstock.com
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