Quick Facts About Tobacco

Did You Know...

430,000 Americans die each year from tobacco use?

Secondhand smoke kills 53,000 Americans who DO NOT smoke?

Smoking kills more Americans than homicides, suicides, car accidents, drunk driving, fires, alcohol, cocaine, heroin, and AIDS combined?

Cigarette smoking is the most devastating and preventable cause of disease and premature death in the history of the world?

Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, most of which are poisons?

Over 48 million Americans have quit smoking because there's proof that smoking causes disease, disability, and death?

More than 9,000 Americans die each year from oral cancers?

Smokeless tobacco can have more than 20,000 times the amount of cancer-causing substances allowed in food?

Within 24 hours of quitting the use of tobacco, your chance of heart attack decreases?

Within 15 years of quitting the use of tobacco, your risk of heart disease is the same as someone who has never used tobacco?