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The World Bank estimates that 780 million women and children around the world inhale a volume of smoke equivalent to smoking two packets of cigarettes a day – leading to the statistic that 60% of female lung-cancer victims in developing nations are non-smokers.
Many "green" people in Berkeley are driving a Prius, recycling their bottles and cans, and generating carcinogenic smoke equivalent of 12,000 packs of cigarettes by burning 3 hours or more of wood smoke on 20-50 nights a year.That is equal to about 600,000 packs of cigarettes!
A hookah session typically lasts 20 80 minutes, and the number and depth of puffs taken means a patron may inhale the smoke equivalent of 100 or more cigarettes.
"Day in and day out, and for hours at a time, women and their small children breathe in amounts of smoke equivalent to consuming two packs of cigarettes per day," the World Health Organization (WHO) reported in the 2006 report Fuel for Life Household Energy and Healthh.
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High risk people are those age 55-74 whaveave smoked equivalent amount of a pack of cigarettes daily for 30 years including time within the past 15 years.
The values were reported relative to 100% smoke mass equivalent to 5.75 ± 0.31 mg (assuming unit density), and 100% smoke particle number equivalent to 1.44 × 1012 ± 0.10 × 1012 particles (n = 3) for 10 puffs from 2 cigarettes (6+4) as measured by the DMS-smoke cycle simulator (SCS) system pre-dilution at the point of generation.
It is also alluringly inexpensive: just one lung full of smoke, the equivalent of a few dollars' worth, can spark a night of euphoria.
Across the 53-member WHO European region, 30% of the population smokes, the equivalent of 11 litres of pure alcohol is drunk per person per year and 59% of the population overweight or obese.
Chicago is known for its wet blanket summers, making even a short walk down to the local bodega for a pack of smokes the equivalent of jumping head-first into the deep end of a turtle tank.
The number of pack-years was estimated as smoked cigarette equivalents per day divided by 20 and multiplied with smoking duration in years.
For example, 40% of people who hold a high school diploma equivalent smoke.
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