Feeling pressure from friends and family to smoke? It gets annoying doesn’t it? After a while you start thinking you’re the only one on the planet who doesn’t smoke – but don’t fall for the hype! Here’s the low down on how many people actually smoke – I bet it’s no where near as many as you think!
So…how many young people actually smoke?
Have a guess at how many young people in Stoke smoke?* It’s probably a lot lower than you think…
You may be shocked to find out that only 8% of young people smoke regularly . So this means that most young people DON’T SMOKE – even though it doesn’t seem that way sometimes!
So do loads more people start smoking when they’re adults?
You may also be surprised that only 27% of adults in Stoke smoke. So the majority of adults – 73% – are non-smokers! Plus, 70% of smokers say they want to quit…
RESPECT YOURSELF
Sometimes it’s hard to have the confidence to say ‘no’ to something it seems like you have to try to be cool.
But would you drink toilet cleaner? Eat rat poison? These are just 2 of the 4,000 chemicals found in cigarettes.
Stoke City footballer…… says “I couldn’t play football for 90 minutes if I smoked. I tried it when I was younger, but found that it made me really out of breath and I couldn’t keep up at training, so I quit.
It was tough, and I wish I’d never started…I’ll try and make sure my kids never take it up.”
DID YOU KNOW? Duncan Bannatyne from Dragon’s Den has put a clause into his Will that says if his kids start smoking, they won’t be allowed any inheritance.
Click here to see the film ‘The Dirty Truth about Smoking’, made by young people, for young people in Stoke.
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