Grimm Stats
Addiction
Costs
Social Justice
Harm Reduction?
100
The leading cause of preventable death and disease in Alaska and worldwide, causing more death than motor vehicle accidents, guns, suicide, alcohol and HIV/AIDS, Influenza and Ebola COMBINED.
What is Tobacco?
100
The number of years prematurely that people with substance use disorder or mental illness will die.
What is 25 years?
100
Your job, your apartment, around your children, around your elders, your school, your doctors office, planes, trains, ferries, movie theaters, the bar, restaurants, parks and at the beach (if you live in Nome).
What are places where you cannot smoke anymore?
100
The the ethnicity with the highest rate of tobacco use in the country.
What is Alaska Native?
100
Nicotine, ultra-fine particles of chemicals, carcinogenic toxins and heavy-metals.
What’s in the aerosol of an e-cigarette?
200
The proportion of smokers who will die prematurely from tobacco related illness'.
What is half?
200
Keeps dopamine/addiction pathways active in the brain, increasing the likelihood of becoming using and becoming addicted to other substances.
What is nicotine?
200
The number of years that smokers will be sick or disabled before they die?
What is 20 years?
200
Marginalized groups of people that the tobacco industry has targeted and who smoke at 2x the rate of national average.
What are the LGBTQ community, people of low socioeconomic status and people living with mental illness and substance use disorder?
200
E-cigarettes will maintain a nicotine addiction which increases the likelihood of returning to smoking and alcohol use, and could discourage or delay tobacco cessation because they are viewed as “safer”.
What are the biggest dangers of e-cigarettes?
300
The decrease in smokers among the substance using population in the last 50 years. (Compared to the 50% decrease in the general population).
What is none at all?
300
Increases the risk of becoming depressed by 2-3 times. Also is a major predictor of depression including a dose dependent response.
What is tobacco use?
300
The amount of money a pack a day smoker will spend in one year on tobacco.
What is over $4380? (Not including health care costs or costs from being sick and missing work.)
300
The number of American's who have died prematurely from tobacco related illness' since the first surgeons report 50 years ago.
What is 20 million?
300
The cause of disfiguring cancers including cancer of the lip, tongue, cheek, roof, jaw, and throat.
What is smokeless tobacco?
400
The number of Alaskans who die every year from a tobacco related illness.
What is 600?
400
Increases stress by creating chronic drug withdrawal symptoms, but commonly confused with "relaxation".
What is tobacco use?
400
The amount per pack of cigarettes that it costs the state in health care costs and lost productivity.
What is $19?
400
Every kind of cancer, heart disease, lung disease, dementia, blindness and diabetes.
What are some of the impacts of tobacco use on the health of low income populations who can afford it the least?
400
Formaldehyde, arsenic, cadmium, radioactive polonium-210 and tobacco specific nitrosamines.
What are some of the 28 cancer causing agents found in smokeless tobacco (and e-cigarettes)?
500
The percentage of substance using adults who also use tobacco.
What is 75% - 90%?
500
The percentage increase in staying clean and sober if also quit tobacco use.
What is 25%?
500
The amount of money the tobacco industry spends in advertising targeting vulnerable populations (youth, low income, mental illness, lgbtq, racial minorities).
What is $1 million an hour?
500
Where many people with mental illness and substance abuse disorders first began smoking cigarettes.
What was the hospital or treatment facility, where cigarettes were used to control and manipulate the behavior of the residents?
500
After a year of using e-cigarettes as a cessation device, the percentage of people who have been successful and are not smoking regular cigarettes.
What is 11%?
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