Each cigarette shortens the life of the average smoker by seven minutes.

Besides tar and nicotine cigarette smoke contains a host of other poisonous gases such as hydrogen cyanide and carbon monoxide.

The risk of a young infant developing bronchitis or pneumonia in the first year of life is doubled if parents smoke.

If you smoke you are probably addicted to the powerful drug nicotine.

The US Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that secondhand smoke kills 56,000 Americans each year.

Kissing a smoker is like kissing an ashtray.

Smoking in bed is a major cause of fire in the home.

Cigarette vending machines provide easy access for children and should be outlawed.

Smokers contribute to a large part of our forest fires.

More fatal fires are caused by cigarettes than by any other source of combustion.

This year in the USA alone, cigarette smoking will contribute to the death of 350,000 people.

Cigarette smoking is the chief, single avoidable cause of death in our society and the most important health issue of our time.

A moderate smoker in the USA spends up to $50,000 on cigarettes during a short lifetime.

This Joker was a smoker.