Tobacco Facts

• Cigarette smoking is the number one preventable cause of death in the United States
  
  
• In the US, cigarette smoking is responsible for about one in five deaths annually, or about 438,00 deaths per year
  
  
• 25 to 40% of smokers will die as a result of smoking
  
  
• Nearly 21% of US adults (45.1 million people) are current cigarette smokers
  
  
• Out of the 45.1 million adults who smoke cigarettes, more than 40% try to quit each year
  
  
• 3% of US adults use smokeless tobacco
  
  
• Snuff contains 28 cancer causing agents. Users are exposed to over 10 times more cancer causing substances than cigarette smokers
  
  
• Among adult smokers, 70% report that they want to quit completely