Smoking

Higher smoking rates are associated with lower education levels.

82.4% of lung cancer deaths are attributable to smoking.

In the U.S., 60.9% of students who ever smoked cigarettes daily tried to quit smoking cigarettes

In 2009, annual smoking-attributable healthcare expenditures were estimated at $132.5 billion.

During 2005-2009, smoking-attributable productivity losses totaled $150.7 billion per year.

Between 2009-2012, the estimated annual smoking-attributable economic costs in the U.S. were between $289-332.5 billion.

In 2006, a judge ruled that Big Tobacco had been engaged in a 50-year-long scheme to deceive the public about the dangers of smoking. Lies suck too.

In 2008, 48.8% of people for whom their high school diploma was their highest level of educational attainment who have ever smoked reported that they had successfully quit.

About 20% of African American youth are exposed to secondhand smoke in the home.