• 6,120 people die every year in MN from tobacco and secondhand smoke.^[1]
• Big Tobacco spends $274.3 million each year marketing its products in MN.^[2]
• Each year smoking costs MN $2.06 billion in direct health care expenses.^[3]
• 22.4 % of high school students and 20% of adults in MN smoke.^[4]
• 100% of MN workplaces, bars, and restaurants are totally smokefree!^[5]

• More than 438,000 people die each year in the U.S. from tobacco and secondhand smoke. ^[6]
• Big Tobacco spends more than $15.4 billion each year on marketing in the U.S.^[7]
• Each year smoking costs the U.S. $96.7 billion in public and private health care expenses.
• 23% of high school students and 20.9% of adults in the U.S. smoke.^[8]
• In the U.S., 17 states, passed smoke-free laws that include restaurants and bars. Click for a list

• Nearly 5 million people worldwide will die from tobacco-related illnesses this year.^[9]
• While there is no reliable estimate of global cigarette marketing expenditures, it is clearly in the tens of billions of US dollars a year.
• Worldwide, over 15 billion cigarettes are smoked every day.^[10]
• Countries that have ratified the FCTC to regulate tobacco worldwide: 146. But, the U.S. is not one of them.

• High school students who smoke - 22.4% (67,200)^[1]
• Kids (under 18) who become new daily smokers each year - 7,500^[1]
• Kids exposed to secondhand smoke at home - 282,000^[1]
• Packs of cigarettes bought or smoked by kids each year - 13.7 million^[1]
• Adults in Minnesota who smoke - 20.0% (780,600)^[1]

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• Kids (under 18) who become new regular, daily smokers each day: 1,000+^[11]
• Kids exposed to secondhand smoke at home: 15.5 million^[11]
• Workplaces that have smoke-free policies: 68.6%^[11]
• Packs of cigarettes consumed by kids each year: 800 million (roughly $2.0 billion per year in sales revenue)^[11]
• Adults in the USA who smoke: 20.9% or about 45 million [Men: 23.9% Women: 18.1%]^[11]
• Kids under 18 alive today who will ultimately die from smoking (unless smoking rates decline): 6,000,000+^[11]
• People in the USA who currently suffer from smoking-caused illness: 8.6 million^[11]

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• In 2003, the Chairman of British American Tobacco collected $4.25 million in salary and bonuses. A British charity calculated that it would take the average tobacco farmer in Brazil approximately six years to earn the equivalent of what the BAT Chairman makes in a single day (and approximately 2,140 years to earn his annual salary).^[12]
• Everyday, approximately 80,000 to 100,000 young people around the world become addicted to tobacco. If current trends continue, 250 million children alive today will die from tobacco-related disease. ^[13]
• Tobacco use results in huge health care costs around the world: U.S. $96.7 billion, Canada $1.6 billion, UK $2.25 billion, China $3.5 billion, Philippines $600 million, Australia $6 billion, Germany $14.7 billion, New Zealand $84 mil^[14]

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1. "The Toll of Tobacco in Minnesota," Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, www.tobaccofreekids.org/reports/settlements/toll.php?StateID=MN, 3/22/07
2. "The Toll of Tobacco in Minnesota," Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, www.tobaccofreekids.org/reports/settlements/toll.php?StateID=MN, 3/22/07
3. "The Toll of Tobacco in Minnesota," Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, www.tobaccofreekids.org/reports/settlements/toll.php?StateID=MN, 3/22/07
4. "The Toll of Tobacco in Minnesota," Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, www.tobaccofreekids.org/reports/settlements/toll.php?StateID=MN, 3/22/07
5. www.smokefreecoalition.org and www.no-smoke.org, 3/22/07
6. "Toll of Tobacco in the USA," www.tobaccofreekids.org/research, 3/22/07
7. "Toll of Tobacco in the USA," www.tobaccofreekids.org/research, 3/22/07
8. "Toll of Tobacco in the USA," www.tobaccofreekids.org/research, 3/22/07
9. "FCA Tobacco Facts," www.fctc.org/factsheets, 3/22/07
10. "FCA Tobacco Facts," www.fctc.org/factsheets, 3/22/07
11. "The Toll of Tobacco in United States of America," Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0072.pdf, 3/22/07
12. "FCA Tobacco Facts," www.fctc.org/factsheets, 3/22/07
13. "FCA Tobacco Facts," www.fctc.org/factsheets, 3/22/07
14. Dr. Judith Mackay and Dr. Michael Eriksen, The Tobacco Atlas, World Health Organization, Myriad Editions Limited, UK, 2006 -- http://www.who.int/tobacco/statistics/tobacco_atlas/en/