Smoking costs us all as much as 65 billion dollars a year in death, lost wages, and smoking-related illness. Each year there are 170,000 new cases of lung cancer and 150,000 deaths from lung cancer.
More women die every year from breast cancer.
Cigarette smokers have 2-4 times the risk of sudden cardiac death. Children exposed to second-hand smoke develop ear infections, bronchitis, and pneumonia as a result.