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- Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 (1 in 5) deaths each year in the United States.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Smoking can lead to cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases (emphysema, bronchitis, and chronic airway obstruction), and diabetes.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- More than 16 million American suffer from a disease caused by smoking.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Cigarette smoking is responsible for an estimated 41,000 deaths per year in the United States resulting from secondhand smoke exposure.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Each day, about 2,100 youth and young adults who have been occasional smokers become daily cigarette smokers.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 5 million deaths per year, and current trends show that by 2030, it will be more than 8 million.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- For every person who dies from a smoking-related disease, about 30 more people suffer with at least one serious illness from smoking.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Secondhand smoke is the third leading cause of preventable death in the United States.
Glantz, S.A. Parmely, W., “Passive Smoking and Heart Diseases: Epidemiology, Physiology, and Biochemistry,” Circulation, 1991; 83(1); 1-12;
- Two-thirds of students prefer to attend a tobacco-free college.
www.Smokefreeoregon.com
- 1 in 5 students have experienced some immediate health impact from exposure to secondhand smoke.
5 .Sparks, M., Bell, R.A., Sparks, A., Sutfin, E.L. (2012), Creating a Healthier Campus: A Comprehensive Manual for Implementing Tobacco-Free Policies: Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest School of Medicine.
- There is no evidence that enrollment has declined at any of the colleges and universities that have gone tobacco-free
www.Smokefreeoregon.com
- Discarded cigarette butts are a fire hazard and diminish the beauty of the campus.
