Sunday, December 12, 2010

Hazardous effect caused by Smoking

Around the globe, there are approximately 1 Billion smokers and it has been estimated by the researchers that the number of smokers will rise to 1.6 Billion by the end of 2025; if the current trend in graph continues to rise. Do you know that an average smoker smokes about 20-30 cigarettes in a day. China is one of the largest nation where approximately 300 million people smokes a cigarette. Around 1.7 trillion sticks of cigarettes is smoked in China in a year. That means if you calculate minutely then within a minute, 3 million cigarettes of is lit in china.
A research showed that, approximately 10 million cigarettes are purchased in a minute, that means around 15 billion of cigarettes are sold in a single day. Don’t you think its huge number?. If you want to weigh 5 trillion cigarettes filters only then they approximately weigh 2 billion pounds.

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