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Youth

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1. 77,000 Minnesota middle and high school students are current tobacco users. (2011 Minnesota Youth Tobacco and Asthma Survey)
2. 88% of adult smokers started smoking by the age of 18. (2012 Surgeon General Report: Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults)
3. About half of Minnesota high school smokers want to stop smoking and just over half have made a quit attempt in the past year. (2011 Minnesota Youth Tobacco and Asthma Survey)
4. Youth are sensitive to nicotine and can feel dependent earlier than adults. Because of nicotine addiction, about three out of four teen smokers end up smoking into adulthood. (2012 Surgeon General Report: Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults)
5. 118,000 Minnesota kids who are under age 18 right now will ultimately die prematurely from smoking. (Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids)

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6. 77,000 Minnesota middle and high school students are current tobacco users. (2011 Minnesota Youth Tobacco and Asthma Survey)

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7. Minnesota kids will buy or smoke 13.4 million packs of cigarettes this year. (Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids) Math for stacked packs: Cigarette pack width 5cm http://www.dimensionsinfo.com/malboro-pack-dimensions/, 13.4 million packs x 5cm = 67,000,000 cm , 67,000,000 cm = 416.3186988 Miles http://www.metric-conversions.org/length/centimeters-to-miles.htm. Minnesota is about 407 miles from north to south http://www.netstate.com/
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Health

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1. 5,100 Minnesota adults die each year from smoking. (Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids)
2. Smoking kills more people than alcohol, AIDS, car crashes, illegal drugs, murders, and suicides combined – and thousands more die from other tobacco-related causes – such as fires caused by smoking (more than 1,000 deaths/year nationwide). (Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids)
3. Smoking accounts for an estimated 443,000 deaths each year in the U.S. – that’s nearly one of every five deaths. (2010 Surgeon General Report: How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease)

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4. Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, causing many diseases and reducing the health of smokers in general. (2004 Surgeon General Report: The Health Consequences of Smoking)
5. Smoking causes coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States. (2004 Surgeon General Report: The Health Consequences of Smoking)
6. Other diseases listed are from “A Report of the Surgeon General: How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: What it means to you. 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, 2010".

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7. 92.3 percent of Minnesotans believe that breathing smoke from other people’s cigarettes is harmful to one’s health. (Minnesota Adult Tobacco Survey, Tobacco Use in Minnesota: 1999-2010)
8. 282,000 Minnesota kids will be exposed to secondhand smoke at home this year. (Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids)
9. Almost half of Minnesota adults report being exposed to secondhand smoke during the past week. (Minnesota Adult Tobacco Survey, Tobacco Use in Minnesota: 1999-2010)

Economic

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1. Every year smoking costs Minnesotans nearly $3 billion in excess health costs, which is equal to $554 per man, woman and child in the state. (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota. Health Care Costs and Smoking in Minnesota. 2010.)

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2. The average cost of a pack of cigarettes in Minnesota is $5.58 - while each pack smoked in Minnesota costs an estimated $8.85 in medical expenses and lost productivity. (Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, www.tobaccofreekids.org/
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