More than 430,000 deaths in the United States each year are attributable to tobacco use, making tobacco the No. 1 cause of preventable death and disease in this country. Smoking prevalence among adolescents has risen dramatically since 1990, with more than 3,000 additional children and adolescents becoming regular users of tobacco each day. Data suggests that more than 70 percent of the 50 million smokers in the United States today have made at least one prior quit attempt. Approximately 46 percent of smokers try to quit each year. Of those, only about 5 percent succeed.
Most smokers make several quit attempts before they successfully kick the habit.
Approximately 100,000 youth smoke. Over 80 percent of current adult smokers have stated that they want to quit smoking.