https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/youth_data/tobacco_use/index.htm

Fast Facts

    • Smoking leads to disease and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body.
    • Cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.
    • The tobacco industry spends billions of dollars each year on marketing cigarettes.
    • Smoking costs the United States hundreds of 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 2019, 14.0% of all adults (34.1 million people) currently smoked cigarettes: 15.3% of men, 12.7% of women.
    • Each day, about 1,600 youth try their first cigarette.
    • Many adult cigarette smokers want to quit smoking