6 Facts You Didn’t Know About Cigarettes

There are other facts that you don’t hear about cigarettes.  We hear all the bad things about cigarettes everyday well here is some facts that you probably never heard of before in your life.

1. Cigarettes the most traded item on the PLANET! It is one of the top industries in the world at around 400 billion a year!  That is a lot of cigarettes.

2. Because Americans have made it such a Nanny state, cigarette companies have chosen to sell abroad and now sell more cigarettes to other countries than they do to Americans.

3. It is not illegal for minors to smoke cigarettes it is just illegal for minors to buy cigarettes.  So as long as you are a parent and around your child they can smoke, not a good idea in my eyes, but it is still not illegal.

4. The U.S. state where there is them most smokers is Kentucky.  Followed by Indiana, Tennessee.  I would have thought Pennsylvania would have been included in that number.  But that is just my own experience from being there.

5.  Around 25% of the cigarettes sold around the world are on the black market, probably because the government is taxing the crap out of the regular person that is wanting to get their cigarettes at the store.

6. This one is quite interesting.  It has been proven that most people start smoking before they are of legal age to smoke.  The reason they do this is because they believe that it makes them seem more adult like.