• High school students who smoke: 26.8% (69,700)
• Male high school students who use smokeless or spit tobacco: 20.2% (females use much lower)
• Kids (under 18) who become new daily smokers each year: 12,400
• Kids exposed to secondhand smoke at home: 289,000
• Packs of cigarettes bought or smoked by kids each year: 14 million
• Adults in Alabama who smoke: 23.3% (811,900)

Deaths in Alabama From Smoking

• Adults who die each year from their own smoking: 7,400
• Kids now under 18 and alive in Alabama who will ultimately die prematurely from smoking: 174,000
• Adult nonsmokers who die each year from exposure to secondhand smoke: 440 to 1,240

Smoking-Caused Monetary Costs in Alabama

• Annual health care costs in Alabama directly caused by smoking: $1.49 billion
• Portion of above covered by the state Medicaid program: $238 million
• Residents' state & federal tax burden from smoking-caused government expenditures: $549 per household
• Smoking-caused productivity losses in Alabama: $2.05 billion

Tobacco Industry Influence in Alabama

• Annual tobacco industry marketing expenditures nationwide: $13.4 billion
• Estimated portion spent for Alabama marketing each year: $265 million