Health Impact

Tobacco contains over 4,000 chemicals, 60 of which are known carcinogens. Smoking-related medical costs totaled more than $75 billion in 1998 and accounted for 8% of personal health care medical expenditures. Death-related productivity losses due to smoking among workers cost the US more than $92 billion yearly (average for 1997-2001). For each pack of cigarettes sold in 1999, $3.45 was spent on medical care due to smoking, plus $3.73 in lost productivity.







Source: "CDC Smoking & Tobacco Use." 19 May 2011.http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/datastatistics/effects_cig_smoking.