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# Morbidity and Mortality Related to Tobacco Use
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/300520090803_morbidity_and_mortality_related_to_tobacco_use/
- Published: 2009-05-30T21:02:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T12:22:47.000Z
- Description: Fact-sheet figures on smoking: tobacco kills more than 5 million people a year worldwide and about 443,000 in the United States, where smoking costs over $193 billion a year and roughly 19.8 percent of adults still smoke.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Lifestyle, Health News, #vivvo-import

**Morbidity and Mortality Related to Tobacco Use**  
  
 \* Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 5 million deaths per year.1  
 \* Current trends show that tobacco use will cause more than 8 million deaths annually by 2030.1  
 \* Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.2  
 \* In the United States, cigarette smoking is responsible for about one in five deaths annually, or about 443,000 deaths per year.3  
 \* An estimated 49,000 of these deaths are the result of secondhand smoke exposure.3  
 \* On average, smokers die 13 to 14 years earlier than nonsmokers.2  
 \* For every person who dies of a smoking-related disease, 20 more people suffer with at least one serious illness from smoking.4  
 \* Cigarette smoking increases the length of time that people live with a disability by about 2 years.5  
  
**Tobacco-Related Costs and Expenditure in the United States**  
  
 \* Annually, cigarette smoking costs more than $193 billion ($97 billion in lost productivity and $96 billion in health care expenditures).3  
 \* Health care costs associated with exposure to secondhand smoke average $10 billion annually.6  
 \* In 2005, the latest year with available data, the cigarette industry spent almost $13.4 billion, or more than $36 million per day, on advertising and promotional expenses.7  
 \* States spend less than 3% of the $24.9 billion available to them from tobacco excise taxes and tobacco industry legal settlements on preventing and controlling tobacco use.8 Investing only 17% of these funds would allow every state tobacco control program to be funded at CDC-recommended minimum levels.9  
  
**Tobacco Use in the United States**  
  
 \* Approximately 19.8% of U.S. adults (43.4 million people) are current cigarette smokers.10  
 \* Prevalence of cigarette smoking is highest among American Indians/Alaska Natives (36.4%), followed by African Americans (19.8%), whites (21.4%), Hispanics (13.3%), and Asians \[excluding Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders\](9.6%).10  
 \* In the United States, 20% of high school students are current cigarette smokers.11  
 \* Each day, about 1,100 persons younger than 18 years of age become regular smokers; that is, they begin smoking on a daily basis.12  
 \* Among adult smokers, 70% report that they want to quit completely,13 and more than 40% try to quit each year.

Cited from CDC.gov