FACTS
Smoking kills 1,200 people every day.
Smokers lose an average of 13 to 14 years of life.
Kids are three times more sensitive to tobacco marketing.
Big Tobacco spends $36 million on marketing every day.
Tobacco is depicted in seventy-five percent of youth-rated movies.
Urea, a chemical found in urine, can also be found in cigarette smoke.
Nicotine levels in cigarettes rose 11% from 1998 to 2005.
Smoking kills more than AIDS, car accidents, illegal drugs, alcohol, murders, and suicides combined.
Sources:
Smoking deaths. CDC, "Annual Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Economic Costs -- United States 1997-2001," MMWR, July 1, 2005. Tobacco marketing. U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Cigarette Report for 2004 and 2005, 2007 [data for top five manufacturers only], http://www.ftc.gov/reports/tobacco/2007cigarette2004-2005.pdf
