One of the best New Year’s resolutions you can make for you and your loved ones is to stop smoking! Below we have some quick facts about smoking.

• Smoking leads to disease and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body.
• Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death.
• The tobacco industry spends billions of dollars each year on marketing cigarettes.
• Smoking costs the United States billions of dollars each year.
• States do not spend much of the money they get from tobacco taxes and lawsuits to prevent smoking and help smokers quit. CDC recommends that states spend 12% of those funds on tobacco control.
• In 2018, 13.7% of all adults (34.2 million people) currently smoked cigarettes: 15.6% of men, 12.0% of women.
• Thousands of young people start smoking cigarettes every day.
• Many adult cigarette smokers want to quit smoking.

For more information on smoking, click the link below. The CDC website has many resources.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/index.htm?s_cid=osh-stu-home-spotlight-001