Smoking by the Numbers
Percentage of US adults who are current smokers... 5%, 10%, or 15%
What is 15%?
The addictive element in cigarettes/tobacco...
What is nicotine?
The minimum age to buy cigarettes in most states, including Arizona...
What is 18 years?
Daily amount of children under 18 years old that try their first cigarette... 1,000, 2,000, 3,000....
What is 3,000?
Average amount of people that use tobacco or have used tobacco worldwide... 90 million, 1 billion, 10 billion...
What is 1 billion?
Women smokers are this many times more likely to develop COPD... 10, 20, or 40...
What is 40 times?
Battery powered devices that deliver a heated aerosol, which typically contains nicotine, flavorings, and other additives to the user...
What are electronic cigarettes?
This country has more smokers than the entire population of US...
What is China?
This organ in the body is NOT damaged as a result of smoking...
What is no organ?
This state is characterized by irritability, anger, anxiety, trouble thinking, and cravings...
What is nicotine withdrawal?
The number of different carcinogens found in smokeless tobacco... 14, 20, or 28
What is 28?
Ethnicity with the highest percentage of smokers...
What is American Indians, Alaska natives?
US state with highest cost per pack of cigarettes...
What is New York?
The number of smoke-free years it takes for a former smoker's risk of heart disease to equal a non-smoker's...
What is 15 years?
Tobacco quit-line phone number...
What is 1-800-QUIT-NOW?
The number of years that a non-smoker outlives a smoker...
What is 10 years?
President that signed the law banning television ads for cigarettes in 1971...
Who is Richard Nixon?
Country that is projected to be smoke free by 2040...
What is Finland?
The best age for a smoker to quit smoking...
What is ANY age?
Average one year savings of a smoker who smokes 1 pack per day if they quit... $1,000, $2,000, $3,000...
What is $2,000?
The amount of time a cigarette craving lasts...
What is 5 minutes?
Smoking hookah for 1 hour is equivalent to smoking this many cigarettes...
What is 100?
This state has passed a ban prohibiting smokers to smoke in their own home if it shares a wall with another resident...
What is California?
The amount of time it takes nicotine to be absorbed by the brain after smoke is inhaled...
What is 10 seconds?
In the 17th century, smoking was only legal 5 miles away from any town in this state...
What is Massachusetts?