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FAST FACTS

• 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.

• 14.0% of all adults (34.3 million people): 15.8% of men, 12.2% of women were current cigarette smokers in 2017.

• Thousands of young people start smoking cigarettes every day.

• Many adult cigarette smokers want to quit smoking.