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480,000 smoker's health bars go down to zero every year.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014 [accessed 2018 Feb 22].

Secondhand smoke kills
41,000
non-smokers in the U.S. each year.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014 [accessed 2018 Feb 22].

Nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke in cars are at an increased risk of cancer.

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/11/120766/nonsmokers-automobiles-are-exposed-significant-secondhand-smoke

Tobacco kills 1,300 people everyday in the U.S.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014 [accessed 2018 Feb 22].

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tobacco

Tobacco kills a smoker every
6
Seconds worldwide.

“Tobacco Fact Sheet.” World Health Organization, World Health Organization, May 2017, www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs339/en/.

Amount of smokers that have died since you’ve been on this page.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014

Eriksen M et al. The Tobacco Atlas. Fifth Ed. Atlanta, GA: American Cancer Society; 2015.

R.J. Reynolds report, “Young Adult Smokers: Strategies and Opportunities”. February 29, 1984. Bates No. 501928462-8550

Which of the following has the best odds?




Shaw, Mary, Richard Mitchell, and Danny Dorling. "Time for a Smoke? One Cigarette Reduces Your Life by 11 Minutes." BMJ : British Medical Journal. British Medical Journal, 2000. Web. 30 June 2016.

Tobacco kills
1in2
Long-term smokers.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014 [accessed 2017 Apr 20].

R.J. Reynolds report, “Young Adult Smokers: Strategies and Opportunities”. February 29, 1984. Bates No 501928462-8550

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014

How many deaths is tobacco responsible for since 1964?




U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking —50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014.

Smoking 1-10 cigarettes a day increases your odds of dying by 87%.

Inoue-Choi M, Liao L, Reyes-Guzman C, Hartge P, Caporaso N, Freedman N. Association of longterm low-intensity smoking with all-cause and causes pecific mortality in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study. JAMA Internal Medicine. December 5, 2016.

More people die from cigarettes in an hour than from shark attacks in a whole year.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014. “World Locations with Highest Attack Rates.” World Locations with Highest Attack Rates :: Florida Museum of Natural History, www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/isaf/shark-attacks-maps-data/trends/world-highest-attacks/ [accessed 2017 July 7].

In the U.S., tobacco kills more people than car accidents, alcohol, illegal drugs and murders —combined.

Mokdad AH, Marks JS, Stroup DF, Gerberding JL. Actual Causes of Death in the United States. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association 2004;291(10):1238–45 [cited 2017 Apr 20].

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