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Source: "The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress. A Report of the Surgeon General." U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health. Other Specific Outcomes, 2014. Report.

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Each year only 6.2% of smokers succeed in quitting.

Source: "Quitting Smoking Among Adults --- United States, 2001--2010." CDC. 11 Nov. 2011. 60(44): 1513-1519. Web.

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Less than 6% of teens still smoke. That's less than the number of landlines still in use.

Source: Johnston, L. D., O’Malley, P. M., Miech, R. A., Bachman, J. G., & Schulenberg, J. E. (2015). Monitoring the Future national results on drug use: 1975-2015: Overview, Key Findings on Adolescent Drug Use. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan.

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About one third of youth smokers will eventually die from a tobacco-related disease.

Source: Epstein, D. "Tobacco: the next World War?" Pan American Health Organization. World Health Organization. 1997. 2(2). Web.

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In the U.S., 26% of middle school, and 21% of high school students who smoke, smoke Newport.

Source: Bloch, A.B., et al. "Cigarette Brand Preference Among Middle and High School Students Who Are Established Smokers --- United States, 2004 and 2006." CDC. 58(05). 2009: 112-115. Web.

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In 2009, annual smoking-attributable healthcare expenditures were estimated at $132.5 billion.

Source: "The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress. A Report of the Surgeon General." U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health. Smoking-Attributable Morbidity, Mortality, and Economic Costs. 2014. Report.

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A typical 60 minute hookah session is the same as smoking 100 cigarettes.

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One half of all lifetime smokers will die prematurely as a result of smoking.

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In 1995, 43% of teens in West Virginia smoked. Today, only 19.6% of teens in West Virginia smoke. Damn, West Virginia teens are killing it at living.

In 2014, 5.9 trillion cigarettes were consumed worldwide - amounting to 814 cigarettes for every man, woman, and child in the world.

Smoking is responsible for the premature deaths of approximately 3 million women since 1980.

Of former smokers in the U.S., 1,742,000 have emphysema from smoking.

Cigarette smoke contains about 7,000 chemicals.

Each year only 6.2% of smokers succeed in quitting.

Less than 6% of teens still smoke. That's less than the number of landlines still in use.

About one third of youth smokers will eventually die from a tobacco-related disease.

In the U.S., 26% of middle school, and 21% of high school students who smoke, smoke Newport.

In 2009, annual smoking-attributable healthcare expenditures were estimated at $132.5 billion.

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