FACTS AND FIGURES
* Cigarettes contain over 4,000 chemicals of which at least 50 are known carcinogens (cancer causing) in humans.
* Cigarettes, are one of the few products sold legally which, when used as intended, can kill you over time.
* Once inhaled, smoke from a cigarette cools and condenses. About 70% of the tar in the smoke is deposited in the smoker's lungs.
* 70% of smokers would like to quit.
* Over one million people have stopped smoking for good as a result of No Smoking Day since it started in 1984.
* Each year about 75% of smokers are aware of No Smoking Day; 35% successfully use the Day to take positive action about their smoking.
* Gloucestershire NHS Smoking Advice Service
has helped 17,246 people in Gloucestershire quit smoking (as at July 2006).
