Smoking is the single most preventable cause of mortality. Every 13 seconds someone dies from tobacco use. One in every five deaths is smoking related.

	There are over 400,000 deaths caused by smoking each year in the United States.
	Every year, smoking causes more deaths than fires, auto crashes, alcohol, cocaine, heroin, AIDS, murders and suicides combined.,
	Smoking causes nearly 90% of all lung cancer and throat cancer.
	Smoking causes 32% of fatal cancers, 21% of fatal heart disease and 88% of fatal lung disease.
	Lung cancer has surpassed breast cancer as the leading cancer killer among women.
	Smoking is associated with cancers of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, pancreas, uterus, cervix, kidney and bladder.
	Smoking is the principle cause of coronary heart disease, which is the most common cause of death in the United States.
	Smoking causes artherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and stroke.
	People who smoke a pack of cigarettes a day are at more than twice the risk for heart attack than people who have never smoked.
	People who smoke two or more packs a day are at 3 times greater risk for heart attack.
	Second hand smoke kills some 50,000 Americans each year, making it the 3rd-leading cause of preventable death.
	One nonsmoker dies of secondhand smoke for every six smokers.

Source: Compiled from literature published by the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society.