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Youth Tobacco

It is estimated that more than 48 million adults in the United States smoke cigarettes. Tobacco use is responsible for more than 430,000 deaths each year, or 1 in every 5 deaths. The economic burden of tobacco use is more than $50 billion in medical expenditures alone. Scientific knowledge that smoking can cause chronic lung disease, coronary heart disease, stroke, and cancer of the lungs, larynx, esophagus, mouth, bladder, cervix, pancreas, and kidneys is well documented. Researchers have identified more than 40 chemicals in tobacco smoke that cause cancer in humans and animals. Smokeless tobacco and cigars also have deadly consequences, including lung, larynx, esophageal, and oral cancer. Women who use tobacco during pregnancy are more likely to experience a variety of infant health disorders. Nonsmokers are also adversely affected by environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Each year, exposure to ETS causes an estimated 3,000 nonsmoking Americans to die of lung cancer and causes up to 300,000 children to suffer from lower respiratory tract infections. Evidence also indicates that exposure to ETS increases the risk of coronary heart disease.

Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death in the Un


Nationally, smoking results in more than 5 million years of potential life lost each year.

Implement paid counteradvertising campaigns — for example, through CDC’s Media Campaign Resource Center, which develops, obtains, and distributes high-quality materials to help states and local programs conduct counteradvertising media campaigns to prevent tobacco use. Materials available include television, radio, magazine, newspaper, and billboard advertisements. The resource center also provides direct technical assistance in conducting counteradvertising campaigns.

Each day, approximately 6,000 young people experiment with cigarettes, 50% of them become daily smokers. If current tobacco use patterns persist, an estimated 5 million people who were younger than 18 years old in 1995 will die prematurely from a smoking-related illness. The proportion of high school students who smoke increased from 28% in 1991 to 35% in 1995. In 1995, 16% of high school students were frequent smokers (smoked 20 out 30 days in the last month). White (non-Hispanic) high school students are twice as likely to smoke cigarettes than black students. More than 89 percent of smokers tried their first cigarette and before age of 19. The average age at which smokers try their first cigarette is 14 1/2 years; 25% of high school students smoked a whole cigarette before age 13. More than 11% of high school students (20% of males and 2% of females) use smokeless tobacco. In some states, more than 1 of every 3 male high school students use smokeless tobacco. Among high school seniors who use smokeless tob

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