The Bad News
Most understand their mortality rate multiplies the longer they keep smoking. *Smoking carries a 57% higher mortality risk rate than other unhealthy lifestyle patterns, including excessive alcohol, poor diet, inactivity. **Multiple studies indicate nicotine may be as addictive as heroin, cocaine, or alcohol. The cost of cigarettes alone, at one pack a day, averages $1,700 per year—and this does not include the ‘real cost’ to relationships, environment, and health of body, mind, and spirit.
*University of Zurich study from 1977-1993 with 16,721 participants, ages 16 to 90.
**Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Smoking & Tobacco use_more details at www.cdc.gov