Fact Sheet - Tobacco

 

• Smoking by children and adolescents hastens the onset of lung function decline during late adolescence and early adulthood.

 

• Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States, and cigarette smoking causes most cases.

 

• Smoking cigarettes that have a lower yield of tar does not substantially reduce the risk for lung cancer.

 

• Cigarette smoking has been associated with sudden cardiac death of all types in both men and women.

 

• In general, smokers’ lung function declines faster than that of nonsmokers.

• Youth, minorities, and low-income smokers are 2 to 3 times more likely to quit or smoke less than other smokers in response to price increases.

 

• Approximately 80% of adult smokers started smoking before the age of 18, and almost no one begins after the age of 25.

 

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 70% of adolescent smokers report wishing they had never started smoking.

• Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death and disease in our society.

 

• Children who smoke cigarettes at an early age are 3 times more likely to use marijuana and 4 times more likely to use cocaine than those who do not smoke, according to the National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids.

 

• Smokers lose an average of 12 to 15 years of life.

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