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•  Tobacco is the leading cause of lung disease.
•  Smoking is also linked to heart disease, stroke and many kinds of cancer.
•  So-called light or low-tar cigarettes are no safer.
•  Smokeless tobacco and cigars also have been linked to cancer.
•  The World Health Organization estimates that almost five-million people a year die from the effects of smoking.
•  At current rates of growth, the WHO says tobacco use will kill more than eight-million people a year by 2020.
•  Studies have found that nicotine can be as powerful as alcohol or cocaine.
•  Nicotine is a poison.
•  But it also is the major substance in cigarettes that gives pleasure to smokers.
•  The body grows to depend on nicotine.
•  When a former smoker smokes a cigarette, the nicotine reaction may start again, forcing the person to keep smoking.
•  So experts say it is better not to start smoking and become dependent on nicotine than it is to smoke with the idea of stopping later.