- Smoking causes over 430,000 deaths per year. That's the same as if four jumbo jets crashed every day, killing everyone on board.
- Each day, about 6,000 young people try a cigarette, and 3,000 more become regular smokers...that's one million new smokers a year. One-third of them will die of tobacco-related illnesses.
- If you're smoking a half a pack of cigarettes a day, it will only take you a few months to become addicted.
- Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day adds up to about $180 a month or nearly $1,000 a year.
- Tobacco companies have spent an estimated $5 billion per year - more than $13 million a day - to advertise and promote cigarettes.
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