The 2007 Smoker Misperceptions survey reveals there are significant differences between what smokers believe are the risks associated with smoking and the realities of tobacco-related disease and death. Check out these igorant smokers assumptions
- Sixty-six percent didn’t know that their chance of developing lung cancer was greater than that of a non-smoker.
- Forty percent incorrectly believed that developing lung cancer depends primarily on genes, not on behaviors like smoking.
- Eight percent didn’t know that smoking has been proven to cause blindness.
- Ten percent didn’t know that smoking has been proven to cause hair loss.
- Twenty-six percent didn’t know that smoking has been proven to cause impotence.
- Thirty-three percent mistakenly thought that they could reverse the harmful effects of smoking by exercising and taking vitamins.
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December 15, 2009 at 5:07 pm
jared
if you’re trying to help those that smoke, you might want to ease up on the condescension.
August 6, 2010 at 7:42 am
dan gerve
maybe not all people do not have the wisdom. or it might be a display of selfishness? nobody (except of course those in tobaco business) feels good when one smoke but the smokers themselves. its a simple sign of inconsideration. inconsiderate towards the feelings and health of other people around them. this also is a vivid display of being a responsible man or woman. how could they be called responsible wherein fact they themselves does not know to take good care of themselves? a very few number of men and women are seen to be responsible spouse, those who are smoking. theyare almost or maybe all of them are irresponsible.
August 6, 2010 at 7:57 am
dan gerve
err….vivid display of IRresponsible man or woman….. sorry, only human…
August 6, 2010 at 7:53 am
dan gerve
selfish and inconsiderate, that the real kinda men n women, those who are smoking. in some counties, some people can not afford to have a three square meals a day and yet they could even afford to buy cigarretes? wow, medical students who amoke should disect their smallllll brains to study how could a man’s mind can be upgraded. what is lamentable was that some medical students (many) are smoking. -and even doctors? wow, what a brain! OMG! is there an effective vitamin for small brains?