SCIENCE

Tobacco education and prevention advocates must base their arguments for policy change on science rather than emotion. This section helps you do that.

Inform Me: The Product What’s in a cigarette? How do its substances - nicotine and smoke - interact with a human body?

Inform Me: Prevalence The World Health Organization says that one third of all adults smoked in the early 1990s.

Inform Me: Economics The national economic costs of smoking are estimated at $3,391 per smoker, per year.

Inform Me: Health Smoking killed an average 440,000 people in the United States between 1995-99.

Show Me: The Smoker’s Body Use this interactive map of the human body to see how smoking damages health.

Watch Me: Community Health and Economic Costs Use the Internet to learn more about the health and economic costs of tobacco in your state.

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