1. Smoking: Breaking The Habit Produced By: Drew A. Jackson

2. How Much Does It Cost Price for a pack of Cigarettes costs an average of $4.00 Price for the year only smoking a pack a day = $1460

3. Harshness Of The Tobacco Industry In 1999, one year after agreeing to stop billboard advertising, tobacco companies increased advertising spending by 33 percent in magazines with more than 15 percent youth readership. How do infants avoid secondhand smoke? "At some point they begin to crawl." -- Tobacco Executive 1996 In 2001, tobacco companies spent about $11 billion marketing their products. That's about $1.5 billion more than the year before. In 1990, a tobacco company put together a plan to stop Coroners from listing tobacco as a cause of death on a death certificate.

4. How Cigarettes Effect You In as little as 2 weeks nicotine changes the brains chemistry and addiction can begin. Tobacco kills more Americans than AIDS, drugs, homicides, fires, and auto accidents combined. Cigarette smoke contains 69 chemical compounds that are known cause cancer. Cigarette smoke contains the radioactive isotope Polonium-210. Tobacco kills more Americans than AIDS, drugs, homicides, fires, and auto accidents combined.

5. What Cigarettes Really Are All About

6. Truth About Effects About 1 out of every 5 deaths in the US can be attributed to tobacco products. Every eight seconds, someone in the world dies due to tobacco. 1 out of 3 smokers are estimated to eventually die from a tobacco-related disease Over 50,000 people a year die from secondhand smoke in the US alone. Over 80 percent of all adult smokers started smoking before they turned 18.

7. How To Quit? Keep busy doing things that make it hard to smoke, like working in the yard, washing dishes and being more active. Fight the urge by going to places where smoking isn't allowed and staying around people who don't smoke. Avoid situations that tempt you to smoke, like drinking coffee or alcohol.

8. How To Quit? (Cont.) Find a substitute to reach for instead of a cigarette. Try a hard candy. Don't give up if you smoke a cigarette. Just resolve not to do it again. Tell family members and friends that you need to quit smoking and need their support. If your husband, wife, son or daughter smokes, ask them to quit with you.