Facts you never knew about smoking Tobacco: We have all seen the “Truth” commercials on television. These sometimes silly and hilarious, and other times sinister and horrifying, public service announcements are part of a movement to educate young kids and teenagers, perhaps even to persuade adults to smoke no longer.

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports that on a given day, an average of over 700 youth under 18 become daily cigarette smokers; over 1300 individuals die from cigarette use; and close to 3000 teens try a cigarette for the first time.

Culturally, we see other areas of entertainment, like photography, film and television, glorifying the addictive pleasure of smoking tobacco. This archaic means to sell more product, and enable more addictive personalities, relies on peer-pressuring through visualizing things that people seek most: social approval.

Tobacco is factually attributing to many types of cancer, high rates of deforestation around the world, enabling addictive, anxious and depressive personalities, birth defects, pollution, chemical poisoning, and overall, affecting the ecosystem. Even though most have been informed of the deadly side effects of nicotine and tobacco use, money is still flowing.

Through the years, tobacco companies have spent billions telling everyone how cool and sexy smoking makes a person, by giving an edge, assisting in losing weight, all without informing of the horrendous truth behind its production, testing, funding, and overall health and socio-economic consequences. Here are some scary facts which you may not know.

10. Money and advertisement

Truth reports that almost forty percent of high school students witness tobacco advertisements on sites they visit through the internet. This is not new. It was not until 1999, and beyond in some territories, that tobacco companies still were able to place store counter propaganda at the eye level of children.

It is estimated that tobacco companies spend more than twenty-six million a day in advertisement. Interestingly enough, tobacco usage costs the government, and its citizens, billions each year due to medical expenses and productivity loss. In the US, smoking-attributable productivity losses are over $150 billion dollars.