Truth About Tobacco

TOBACCO USE IN NEW YORK:

Adults 18+ - 18.1% smoke, 5.4% use other tobacco
High School 9th-12th grade - 18.5% smoke, 12.5% use other tobacco
Middle School 6th-8th grade - 5.4% smoke, 5.6% use other tobacco
*Other tobacco includes chewing tobacco, cigars/cigarillos, pipe tobacco, bidis, and clove cigarettes.

DEATHS IN NEW YORK FROM TOBACCO USE:

Nearly 26,000 (1 out of 5) adults die each year from smoking...
SHS is responsible for roughly 2,400 deaths each year and roughly 4,300 deaths occur each year from women smoking while pregnant...
Nearly 424,000 youths who are alive today will ultimately die from smoking...
Over 500,000 adults are currently suffering from a tobacco-related illness...

EVERY YEAR, SMOKING KILLS MORE PEOPLE THAN ALCOHOL, AIDS, CAR CRASHES, ILLEGAL DRUGS, MURDER, AND SUICIDE COMBINED!!

TOBACCO-RELATED MONETARY COSTS IN NYS:
Nearly $8 Billion Dollars are spent each year in health care costs related to smoking and $5 Billion Dollars  is spent by the Medicaid program...
$842 per household is spent on smoking-caused expenditures...