#TobaccoFreeMe
Leading the fight against tobacco
There are 1.1 billion smokers in the world
Among these smokers...
60% say they want to quit
While this figure is encouraging, others are less so...
...11% of teens aged 13-15 are smokers
Tobacco, leading cause of preventable death
Tobacco kills more people than AIDS, all other drugs, car accidents, murders and suicides combined. Some countries are more affected than others: in fact, more than 80% of smokers live in low-income countries, where prevention and dissuasion policies are limited or nonexistent. In France, tobacco remains the leading cause of preventable death, and costs more than 3% of GDP annually.
80%
of smokers live in low-income countries
Second-hand smoke is a real scourge
But not all of these smokers choose to use tobacco. Second-hand smoke is a real scourge. Spouses and partners of smokers, their children and even their pets, you are also affected by the cigarette smoke present in your home. And it is far from harmless: every year, 600,000 people die from second-hand smoke.
600,000
people die from second-hand smoke
Tobacco is also synonymous with litter: every year, people throw out nearly 4.5 trillion cigarette butts
Cigarette butts even litter our beaches
They represent the biggest source of plastic pollution on beaches, where they leak deadly toxins into the oceans. That means fish are also victims of this pollution, since a cigarette butt can contaminate up to 1,000 liters of water.


Cigarette butts are the leading source of litter on the ground
They take 2 years to decompose. They consist in a cocktail of chemical substances, including heavy metals (cadmium, lead, chrome, mercury), tar and nicotine. Not to mention the filter, which is often composed of non-biodegradable plastics.
It is time to stop smoking… and for good reason
Within 20 minutes of quitting smoking, blood pressure and heart rate return to a normal rhythm
24 hours after quitting smoking, the risk of heart attack is already greatly reduced
10 years after quitting smoking, life expectancy is identical to a nonsmoker...