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Smoking leads to disease and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body.
Cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.
The tobacco industry spends billions of dollars each year on marketing cigarettes.
Smoking costs the United States hundreds of 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 2019, 14.0% of all adults (34.1 million people) currently smoked cigarettes: 15.3% of men, 12.7% of women.
Each day, about 1,600 youth try their first cigarette.
Many adult cigarette smokers want to quit smoking.

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