Grimm Stats
Manipulative Marketing
Environmental Impact
Social Justice
E-Cigarettes
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
Has a direct correlation with his chances of becoming a smoker.
What is the number of tobacco ads a young person is exposed to? Look around you at the grocery store checkout line or the gas pumps.
100
A cleaner campus, reduced maintenance costs, an increasing in smokers who will quit, a decrease in the number of young people who will start smoking, and better preparation for students to enter the work force.
What are the benefits to a smoke and tobacco-free campus?
100
The the ethnicity with the highest rate of tobacco use in the country.
What is Alaska Native? 41% vs 20% general population
100
Nicotine, ultra-fine particles of chemicals, carcinogenic toxins and heavy-metals.
What’s in the aerosol of an e-cigarette?
200
What is the number of adults, out of 10, who started smoking before age 18?
What is 9 out of 10?
200
The amount of money per hour that the tobacco spends marketing to young people.
What is $1 million dollars?
200
The percentage of Alaskans who believe second hand smoke is dangerous and that we should be protected from it?
What is 90%?
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?
200
E-cigarettes could serve as an initiation tool for nicotine addiction and tobacco use in youth, could re-normalize cigarette smoking in public, could discourage or delay tobacco cessation because they are viewed as “safer” and could tempt former smokers to return to nicotine and relapse into smoking.
What are the biggest dangers of e-cigarettes?
300
The number of deaths in Alaska caused by tobacco every year?
What is 600?
300
In low income and minority neighborhoods and near schools.
Where are tobacco retailers, tobacco advertising and tobacco product discounts concentrated?
300
The most common littered item found on the beaches of the world while a single one will kill half of the fish in 1 liter of water.
What is cigarette butts?
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 rate of increase of e-cigarette marketing in one year, using celebrities and themes of rebellion, which appeal to young people.
What has tripled between 2011 and 2013 and then tripled again between 2013 and 2014 ?
400
The amount of money it costs Alaskans every year per pack of cigarettes.
What is $19?
400
By taking advantage of their "sense of invincibility", they focus marketing on intensity of experience at the expense of life-span.
How do the tobacco companies market to young people, which they are dependent on as "replacement" smokers?
400
The residue of sticky toxic particles that cling to surfaces and release toxins into the air?
What is third hand smoke? There is evidence of nicotine exposure in babies in the NICU from their parents who smoke. Walls and furniture from a smokers home can off-gas nicotine indefinitely.
400
Free advertising for the tobacco industry.
What is posting pictures of yourself smoking on social media?
400
The increase in the use of e-cigarettes in middle and high school students who had never smoked a regular cigarette.
What has tripled between 2011 and 2013 and then tripled again between 2013 and 2014 ?
500
The percentage of low income people who smoke, compared to 14% of the high income population.
What is 38%? 1% decline vs 10% decline since 1996.
500
Increased the under-18 year-old Camel cigarette market from .5% to 32.8% and increased sales by $476 million.
What was the introduction of Joe Camel from 1988 to 1991?
500
The number of times you could stretch to the moon and back with one years worth of cigarette butts worldwide.
What is 300 times!?
500
Where many people with mental illness and substance use 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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