Number of deaths per hour: 45.
Number of deaths per year attributed to tobacco in the United States: 400,000 *.
Number of deaths per hour: 45.
Number of deaths due to:
Cardiovascular disease: Almost 180,000. *
Obstructive lung disease (chronic bronchitis and emphysema (defined): 65,000 *.
Risk for a smoker dying of lung cancer, compared to a never-smoker:
Male: 22 times
Female: 12 times
Number of scientific studies on the health effects of tobacco, approximate: 50,000.
Percentage of United States adults who smoked in 1993: 25 *
Percentage in 1965: 42 *
Number of years of life smoking costs the average smoker: 7 *
Number of identified carcinogens (defined) in tobacco smoke: 43
Estimated 1993 health care costs due to smoking, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: total $50 billion. This figure includes:
$26.9 billion for hospital costs
$15.5 billion for doctors
$4.9 billion in nursing home costs
$1.8 billion for prescription drugs
$900 million for home-health care expenditures
Number of times "addiction" is listed on compulsory cigarette warnings (in United States): 0.
Marketing and promotional budget of tobacco companies, (1993): $6 billion.
Number of cigarette advertisements this money bought that mention addiction, habituation, dependence or the difficulty most smokers experience in quitting: 0.
Revenues of the U.S. tobacco companies, 1991: $32 billion *.
Percentage of adult smokers who had tried cigarettes by 18th birthday: 80 (source).
Percentage of smokers age 12 to 17, according to a 1992 Gallup poll, who want to quit: 66. (source).
Percentage of NCAA baseball athletes who use "smokeless tobacco": 57 (source: "The marketing of nicotine addiction..." see bibliography).
Other sources
* American Cancer Society fact sheet "Questions About Smoking, Tobacco, and Health ... and the Answers.
** FDA Fact Sheet.
Stop the presses! Evidence that something besides nicotine affects the chemical composition of the human thinking apparatus.
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