| > Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day.[1] > The tobacco industry spends billions of dollars each year on marketing cigarettes.[2] > Each day, about 1,600 youth try their first cigarette.[2] > In 2015, nearly 7 in 10 (68.0%) adult cigarette smokers wanted to stop smoking.[1] > In 2018, more than half (55.1%) adult cigarette smokers had made a quit attempt in the past year.[1] > In 2018, more than [only] 7 out of every 100 (7.5%) people who tried to quit succeeded.[1] Smoking legislation isn't about micromanaging the lives of people who fully understand the risk choose to smoke anyway. It's about preventing cigarette manufacturers from preying on those who don't fully understand the risk or didn't when they started, but are now addicted. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast... [2] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/inde... |