Smoking & Tobacco Use

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/

Fast Facts

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).¹
  
• For every person who dies from a smoking-related disease, 20 more people suffer with at least one serious illness from smoking.²

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 2030.³
  
• In the United States, smoking 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).¹
  
• On average, smokers die 13 to 14 years earlier than nonsmokers.⁴

Costs and Expenditures

The cigarette industry spends billions each year on advertising and promotions.⁵

• $8.05 billion total spent in 2010
  
• $22 million spent a day in 2010

Tobacco use costs the United States billions of dollars each year.

• Cigarette smoking costs more than $193 billion (i.e., $97 billion in lost productivity plus $96 billion in health care expenditures).¹
  
• Secondhand smoke costs more than $10 billion (i.e., health care expenditures, morbidity, and mortality).⁶

State spending on tobacco control does not meet CDC-recommended levels.^7,8

• Collectively, states have billions of dollars available to them—from tobacco excise taxes and tobacco industry legal settlements—for preventing and controlling tobacco use. States currently use a very small percentage of these funds for tobacco control programs.
  
• In 2013, states will collect $25.7 billion from tobacco taxes and legal settlements, but states are spending less than 2% of the $25.7 billion on tobacco control programs.
  
• Investing only about 15% (i.e., $3.7 billion) of the $25.7 billion would fund every state tobacco control program at CDC-recommended levels.