• Smoking leads to disease and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body.
• Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death.
• The tobacco industry spends billions of dollars each year on marketing cigarettes.
• Smoking costs the United States billions of dollars each year.
• States do not spend much of the money they get from tobacco taxes and lawsuits to prevent smoking and help smokers quit. CDC recommends that states spend 12% of those funds on tobacco control.
• In 2018, 13.7% of all adults (34.2 million people) currently smoked cigarettes: 15.6% of men, 12.0% of women.
• Thousands of young people start smoking cigarettes every day.
• Many adult cigarette smokers want to quit smoking.  (CDC Smoking Fact Sheet)

Last week I posted a list of what to start doing if you want to live a longer, healthier life.  In that list, there was one item you should STOP doing that could save your life-STOP SMOKING!  It is very hard to do since nicotine is one of the most addictive drugs on the planet.  Start today, get the support you need and make a plan to QUIT SMOKING!