Tobacco use leads to an increased risk of pneumonia, influenza, bronchitis, and emphysema.
West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming the USA Tuesday . May 22 obacco use among children and teens has reached epidemic proportions. Currently, an estimated 4.5 million kids between the ages of 12 and 17 are smokers, collectively smoking more than 500 million packs of cigarettes a year. In the past decade, the number of kids under 18 who became daily smokers each year has increased by more than 70 percent. Almost 90 percent of adult smokers began at or before age 18.