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Some Tobacco Facts
Each day, more than 3,300 kids become regular smokers. One-third of them will eventually die from a tobacco-related disease
(Center for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 1996: Volume 45, No.44).
4.5 million kids age 12-17 are current smokers (National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Population Estimates 1997, "Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services).
Almost 40 percent (36.9) of all high school seniors smoke - this is at a 19- year high ( The Monitoring the Future Study, University
of Michigan, 1997).
Since 1991, past-month smoking has increased by 35 percent among eighth graders and 43 percent among tenth graders (The
Monitoring the Future Study, University of Michigan, 1997).
More than 5 million children under age 18 alive today will die from smoking-related diseases unless current rates are reversed
(Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Nov. 21, 1996, Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Youth Risk Behavior Survey,
1995, CDC).
Almost 90 percent of adult smokers began smoking at or before age 18 ("Prevention Tobacco Use Among Young People", A Report
of The Surgeon General, 1994).
The tobacco industry spends over 5 billion dollars on advertising and promotion of its products each year (U.S. Federal Trade
Commission, Report to Congress for 1996 Pursuant to the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act, 1998).
About 10 million People in the United States have died from causes attributed to smoking (including heart disease, emphysema,
and other respiratory diseases) since 1994--and two million of these deaths were the result of lung cancer alone. (Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, Office on Smoking and Health, unpublished data, 1994).
On average, smokers die nearly seven years earlier than nonsmokers (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office on
Smoking and Health, unpublished data, 1994).
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