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How Smoking Impacts Society

For years, society was ignorant of the negative impact that the tobacco industry

had on disease and death rates as well as the monetary impact on businesses and families from the loss of work and medical bills that result from smoking. As technology and scientific testing have improved, the CDC and other government organizations have better been able to determine to what extent tobacco products have played a negative role on the health of citizens around the world.

How Tobacco Use Impacts Disease

Over the past few decades, it has been proven that tobacco has a direct link to increased rates of heart disease, lung disease, and cancer. The carcinogens found in tobacco cigarettes are closely tied to emphysema, bronchitis, and chronic airway obstruction. Cigarette smoking has ultimately been proven to cause people to live with a disability on average up to two years before their death.

The number of deaths world-wide attributed to tobacco use has increased to 5 million deaths a year and is estimated to be going over 8 million a year by 2030. Typically, a smoker can expect to pass away about 14-15 years before a non-smoker will. Within the United States, smoking is attributed to 443,000 deaths a year with 43,000 of these deaths resulting from second hand smoke.


How Much Does Smoking Cost the Rest of Us?

Just within the United States, smoking costs almost $200 billion USD annually. Approximately half of these costs are due to health care and the other half to lost productivity in the work place. Within these numbers, approximately $10 billion USD is attributed to the cost of second hand smoke. The tobacco industry, however, spends over $13 billion USD in advertising annually coming in at close to $40 million USD per day. These advertising numbers continue to rise in order for the tobacco companies to continue to gain new customers in order to maintain profitability. This is despite the overall cost on the remainder of the economy and other businesses.

How Many People Smoke in the United States?

Just in the United States, about 1 in 5 of adult U.S. residents are smokers. The same number of high school students are found to smoke, although it is illegal to purchase cigarettes if you are under 18 years of age in the U.S. On the same note, even though tobacco advertising is restricted, almost 2,000 adults start smoking every day and over 1,200 teenagers do as well. Of the smokers in the United States, about 4 in 10 try to stop smoking every year. Of these four smokers who try to quit, more than half fail in their efforts.

by: William Jones
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How Smoking Impacts Society