Iowa/Illinois Facts

Statistics and Facts

Tobacco in Illinois

• In Illinois, 81.9% of high school students don't smoke!
• 87.1% of high school boys don't use smokeless tobacco!
• Each year, over 19,600 teenagers and kids under 18 become regular smokers!
• 773,000 children are exposed to secondhand smoking in their homes each year.
• 31.4 million packs of cigarettes are bought or smoked by kids each year.
• 16,600 people die each year in Illinois from smoking.
• 18.6% of adults in Illinois smoke.
• In Illinois, the cigarette tax is 98 cents per pack.

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Tobacco in Iowa

• In Iowa, 81.1% of high school students don't smoke.
• 86.2% of all high school boys don't use smokeless tobacco.
• Each year, over 4,000 teenagers and kids under 18 become regular smokers!
• On average, 231,000 children are exposed to secondhand smoking in their homes each year.
• 7.7 million packs of cigarettes are bought or smoked by kids each year
• 4,400 people die each year in Iowa from smoking.
• 17.2% of adults in Iowa smoke.
• In Iowa, the cigarette tax is 1.36 cents per pack .

Smoking kills more people than alcohol, AIDS, car crashes, illegal drugs, murders, and suicides combined -- and thousands more die from other tobacco-related causes -- such as fires caused by smoking (more than 1,000 deaths/year nationwide) and smokeless tobacco use. No good estimates are currently available, however, for the number of Iowa citizens who die from these other tobacco-related causes, or for the much larger numbers who suffer from tobacco-related health problems each year without actually dying.

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Source: Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids/April 27, 2011