It's estimated 3,000 teenagers start smoking each day.
Most people begin smoking before the age of sixteen.
Almost all first time cigarette use occurs by the time a student graduates from high school. Most teenagers try their first cigarette with a friend who is already a smoker. Friends, siblings, and advertising are powerful influences on teens who begin smoking. Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals. Two hundred of those chemicals are poisonous and forty-three are known to cause cancer.