Thread by @truthcastuk

TREAD: The contents of this thread is the latest smoking statistics written and published by the @CDCgov all statistics are based on US citizens.

Read all of this and then answer one question "why are they banning vaping and not smoking?"

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@CDCgov Smoking leads to disease and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body.

More than 16 million Americans are living with a disease caused by smoking.

For every person who dies because of smoking, at least 30 people live with a serious smoking-related illness.

@CDCgov Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

@CDCgov Smoking also increases risk for tuberculosis, certain eye diseases, and problems of the immune system, including rheumatoid arthritis.

Smoking is a known cause of erectile dysfunction in males.

@CDCgov Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death.

Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 7 million deaths per year. If the pattern of smoking all over the globe doesn’t change, more than 8 million people a year will die from diseases related to tobacco use by 2030.

@CDCgov Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day.

@CDCgov On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.

@CDCgov If smoking continues at the current rate among U.S. youth, 5.6 million of today’s Americans younger than 18 years of age are expected to die prematurely from a smoking-related illness.

This represents about one in every 13 Americans aged 17 years or younger who are alive today.

@CDCgov The tobacco industry spends billions of dollars each year on cigarette and smokeless tobacco advertising and promotions.

@CDCgov In 2017, $9.36 billion was spent on advertising and promotion of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco combined—more than $25 million every day, and more than $1 million every hour.

@CDCgov Price discounts to retailers account for 71.7% of all cigarette marketing (about $6.19 billion). These are discounts paid in order to reduce the price of cigarettes to consumers.

@CDCgov Smoking costs the United States billions of dollars each year.

@CDCgov Total economic cost of smoking is more than $300 billion a year, including
Nearly $170 billion in direct medical care for adults
More than $156 billion in lost productivity due to premature death and exposure to secondhand smoke.

@CDCgov Percentage of U.S. adults aged 18 years or older who were current cigarette smokers in 2017:
14.0% of all adults (34.3 million people): 15.8% of men, 12.2% of women

@CDCgov Thousands of young people start smoking cigarettes every day.

Each day, about 2000 people younger than 18 years smoke their first cigarette.

Each day, over 300 people younger than 18 years become daily cigarette smokers.

@CDCgov Many adult cigarette smokers want to quit smoking.
In 2015:

Nearly 7 in 10 (68.0%) adult cigarette smokers wanted to stop smoking.

More than 5 in 10 (55.4%) adult cigarette smokers had made a quit attempt in the past year.

@CDCgov End of thread: In 2019 they're 13,000,000 vapers in the US that have successfully quit smoking.

0 people have died from vaping nicotine.

Vaping has been mainstream for over 10 years.

So, why do the government want us to stop vaping?

#WeVapeWeVote #vapingsaveslives #Corruption