- Worldwide, tobacco use causes nearly 5 million deaths per year.
- Current trends show that tobacco use will cause more than 10 million deaths annually by 2020.
- Smoking kills more people than alcohol, AIDS, car crashes, illegal drugs, murders, and suicides combined -- and thousands more die from other tobacco-related causes -- such as fires caused by smoking (more than 1,000 deaths/year nationwide)
- Annually, cigarette smoking costs more than $167 billion, based on lost productivity ($92 billion) and health care expenditures ($75.5 billion).
- Health care costs associated with exposure to secondhand smoke average $10 billion annually.
- Smokeless tobacco is not a safe substitute for smoking cigarettes. It can cause cancer and a number of non-cancerous oral conditions and can lead to nicotine addiction and dependence."
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