Smoking Facts-

• Each day 3,000 children smoke their first cigarette.
• at least 3 million adolescents are smokers.
• 20% of American teens smoke.
• Tobacco use primarily begins at age 16.
• Almost all first use occurs before high school graduation.
• Roughly 6 million teens in the U.S. today smoke despite the knowledge that it is addictive and can lead to many diseases.
• Of every 100,000 15 year old smokers, tobacco will prematurely kill 20,000 before the age of 70.
  
• Of the 3,000 teens that started smoking today, nearly 1,000 will eventually die as a result of smoking.
• Kids who smoke experience changes in the lungs and reduced lung growth, and they risk not achieving normal lung function as an adult.
• If your best friend smokes you are 13 times more likely to smoke than if they didn't.