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Quit for Your Own Good
For Smokers
Every 13 seconds, someone dies from using tobacco.
Three people die for every five tons of tobacco grown.
Smoking is the single most avoidable cause of death, causing one out of every six deaths.
Smoking causes 30% of all cancers and nearly 90% of all cases of lung cancer, throat cancer and emphysema.
Smoking causes 32% of fatal cancers, 21% of fatal heart illness and 88% of fatal chronic lung illness.
Some 500,000 Americans die of smoking-related illness each year, eight times as many as died in the Vietnam War.
Smoking kills more people than AIDS, crack, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, murder, fire, and car accidents together.
Every $2 pack of cigarettes sold in the U.S. costs the national economy $2 in health care and lost work time.
Health care costs from smoking total $22 billion each year, three-quarters of it spent on people younger than age 65.
The government pays more than $4 billion in Medicare and Medicaid payments for tobacco-related illness each year.