Morbidity and Mortality
Tobacco use leads to disease and disability.
- Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, and lung diseases (including emphysema, bronchitis, and chronic airway obstruction).
- For every person who dies from a smoking-related disease, 20 more people suffer with at least one serious illness from smoking.
Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death.
- Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 5 million deaths per year, and current trends show that tobacco use will cause more than 8 million deaths annually by 2030.
- In the United States, tobacco use is responsible for about one in five deaths annually (i.e., about 443,000 deaths per year, and an estimated 49,000 of these smoking-related deaths are the result of secondhand smoke exposure).
- On average, smokers die 13 to 14 years earlier than nonsmokers.
- On average, each cigarette shortens a smokers life by ten minutes.
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* Smoking is set
to kill 6.5 million
people in 2015 and 8.3
million humans in 2030,
with the biggest rise in
low-and middle-income
countries.
* Every 6.5 seconds a current or former smoker dies, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
* An estimated 1.3 billion people are smokers worldwide (WHO).
- 1.2 million people in China die because of smoking each year. That's 2,000 people a day.
- Tobacco use will kill 1 billion people in the 21st century if current smoking trends continue.
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33 percent to 50 percent
of all smokers are
killed by their habit.
Costs and Expenditures
The cigarette industry spends billions each year on advertising and promotions.
- $9.94 billion total spent in 2008
- $27 million spent a day in 2008
Thousands of young people begin smoking every day.
- Each day, more than 3,800 persons younger than 18 years of age smoke their first cigarette.
- Each day, about 1,000 persons younger than 18 years of age begin smoking on a daily basis.
Many adult smokers want to quit smoking.
- Approximately 69% of smokers want to quit completely.
- Approximately 52% of smokers attempted to quit in 2010.
* Smoking is set to kill 6.5 million people in 2015 and 8.3 million humans in 2030, with the biggest rise in low-and middle-income countries.
* Every 6.5 seconds a current or former smoker dies, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
* An estimated 1.3 billion people are smokers worldwide (WHO).
- Over 443,000 Americans (over 18 percent of all deaths) die because of smoking each year. Secondhand smoke kills about 50,000 of them.
- 1.2 million people in China die because of smoking each year. That's 2,000 people a day.
- Tobacco use will kill 1 billion people in the 21st century if current smoking trends continue.
- 33 percent to 50 percent of all smokers are killed by their habit.
* Smokers die on average 15 years sooner than nonsmokers.sources :
http://www.inforesearchlab.com/smokingdeaths.chtml
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/
