The Toll of Tobacco
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Every ___ seconds, someone in the world dies from a smoking-related disease.
6
Who are the only source of replacement smokers for the tobacco industry?.
Youth or young adults
What percentage of convenience stores in the US sell tobacco products?
Over 99%
Which tobacco product causes oral cancer, lesions, and gum recession?.
Smokeless tobacco
How many people in the US does tobacco kill each year?.
About 480,000
A tobacco company once using this to sell tobacco products
Ice cream truck
How much does the tobacco industry spend on marketing each hour?
$1 million
Smoking can lead to this, the number one cause of vision loss
Cataracts
Only ___% of teenagers still smoke cigarettes.
6%
Tobacco kills about ___% more people than murder.
30
About how many youth smokers will eventually die from a tobacco-related disease?
One-third
What type of advertising encourages “impulse buys?”
Point-of-Sale
Cigarette smokers are ___ times more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smokers
20
Truth works to expose Big Tobacco’s...
Manipilation and profiling tactics
If no action is taken by 2030, how many people will die a year from tobacco-related illnesses?.
8 million
Every day, how many youth become daily smokers?
2,300
In 2007, Camel sold cigarettes in which colors to appeal to young girls?
Teal and Pink
Name something as addictive as nicotine
Cocaine, Heroin, or alcohol
In cities like DC, black neighborhoods have up to __ times more tobacco ads than other neighborhoods.
10
Secondhand smoke kills how many people every day?
113
What percentage of smokers before smoking before the age of 14.
33%
In 1974, a tobacco company explored targeting kids as young as…
14
Smoking causes skin discoloration, wrinkles, and…
Premature aging
We will be the generation to _____________
End smoking