• 419,000 people die each year in the U.S from smoking cigarettes.

• Approximately 50,000 nonsmokers die each year in the U.S from environmental tobacco smoke (ETS - Secondhand Smoke) exposure.

• 20% (1 of 5) of the deaths in the U.S are caused by smoking.

• 4,000 new born babies die each year of second-hand smoke in U.S.A.

• There are as many as 300,000 infants up to 18 months of age who get bronchitis and pneumonia from second-hand smoke each year in the U.S.

• Each day, nearly 3,000 American youngsters become regular smokers. Of these, 1,000 will die early from tobacco-related diseases.

• 82 percent of adults who ever smoked had their first cigarette by their 18th birthday. More than half became regular smokers by that time.

• Smoking among 8th and 10th graders has risen 50 percent since 1991.

• Of 1,000 20-year-olds who continue to smoke, 6 will die prematurely from homicide, 12 from car accidents, and 500 from smoking.

• Bladder cancer is the fifth most common type of cancer in the U.S. 54,500 people are diagnosed anually and each year the disease kills about 11,700 Americans.

• In the US secondhand smoke causes about 3,000 lung cancer deaths a year, compared to less than 100 lung cancer deaths per year from traditional forms of outdoor air pollution.

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