Alcohol
what is the alcohol related death rate in Australia each year?
1742
This many people die each year from drunk driving crashes in 2022
What is 1192 deaths
Smoking causes about this many deaths per year in the Australia
What is about 24,000 lives
percentage of Australian kids under 18 try their first cigarette every day.
What is 13.5%
This addictive chemical in tobacco makes smoking habit-forming.
What is nicotine?
What gender had the most alcohol related death rate in Australia annually?
Males
On average, death percentage related to drunk-driving
What is 30%
Globally, tobacco kills this many people each year.
8,000,000 Lives...
Roughly this many kids per day become new daily smokers in Australia
What is one in 5
This poisonous gas in smoke binds to hemoglobin and reduces oxygen supply.
What is carbon monoxide?
Alcohol is linked to at least this many types of cancer
What is 7
what gender has 90% involved and related to drunk driving accidents
males
Smokers die on average this many years earlier than nonsmokers.
What is 10 years less
About this many Americans (ages 12+) have Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)
What is 29.5 million
This sticky residue in cigarettes coats the lungs and causes cancer.
What is tar?
The annual economic cost of alcohol misuse in Australia is approximately this many billions of dollars.
What is $66,800,000,000
- That's billions!
This age group of all traffic deaths are due to alcohol-impaired driving
What is 17-24
Tobacco use costs this much annually in healthcare and lost productivity.
What is $180,000,000
Roughly this percentage of kids in Australia have FASD (Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder)
What is about 3.64%
This heavy metal found in batteries is also present in cigarette smoke and damages kidneys.
What is cadmium?
percentage of suicides involve alcohol in Australia annually
What is 30-50%
In 2024, this many people died from alcohol-related crashes — one of the highest in recent years.
What is 1286
This radioactive element in cigarettes emits alpha radiation and increases lung cancer risk
What is Polonium-210?
About this percentage of first-time nicotine users become dependent.
What is 67%
These cancer-causing compounds form during curing and processing of tobacco.
What are tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs)?