News Flash: Even Smokers Don’t Want to Date Other Smokers

As we celebrate WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY today, Web Watch would like to point out a RECENT SMOKING-RELATED SURVEY that came out that said that 80% of male smokers surveyed would prefer to date a non-smoker.

Female smokers ranked that even higher, with 87% of women smokers stating that they would prefer to date a non-smoker themselves.

Some other smoking-related statistics from various studies this year include:

• 80% of smokers don’t believe cigarettes and smoking damages the skin
• 2/3 of those surveyed said that smoking was a turn-off.
• There are 100,000 smoking-related deaths in Pakistan each year, with 5.4 million deaths worldwide.
• Austria boasts the world’s largest smoking population, with 60% of those between 20-50 classifying themselves as regular or occasional smokers.   Also  in Austria – 24% of teenage boys and 30% of teenage girls also smoke (ages around 15 years old)