Fast Facts: Oct. 21
October 21, 2010
- About 10 million cigarettes are sold every minute.
- Nonsmokers dream more at night than smokers do.
- Smokers need to ingest 40 percent more vitamin C than nonsmokers just to stay even.
- Each puff of smoke inhaled from a cigarette contains 4 billion particles of dust.
- Christopher Columbus introduced the smoking of tobacco to Europe after discovering the “”strange leaves”” on the island of Cuba.
- Nicotine is named for Jean Nicot de Villemain, France’s ambassador to Portugal, who wrote of tobacco’s medicinal properties, describing it as a panacea.
- According to the American Heart Association, an estimated 47 million Americans smoke: 25 million men and 24 million women.
