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Don't Start Smoking - Nicotine Addiction is Dangerous

Every year, over 440,000 people in the United States alone die because they smoked, or used some other form of tobacco. Statistics show that if you start smoking between the ages of 13 and 15, you've got a 50/50 chance of smoking for at least 15 or 20 years.
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