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Tobacco Facts

CDC Office of Smoking and Health 
State-level Tobacco Disparities Dashboard

The Tobacco Disparities Dashboard is an intuitive visualization platform, allowing for the quick exploration of cigarette smoking prevalence and identification of related disparities in states by age, disability, education, employment, income, mental health, race, ethnicity, sex, urban, and rural. The dashboard enables users to analyze data to identify opportunities for improvement and accelerate data into action to reduce cigarette smoking among specific groups. The dashboard can be accessed using this link: State Tobacco-Related Disparities | Tobacco - Health Equity | CDC.

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The Gavel that Unraveled the Tobacco Industry

January 22, 2024

A summary from the American Lung Association.

Who Global Report on Trends In Prevalence of Tobacco Use 2000–2030

January 16, 2024

Report includes trends in prevalence of tobacco use: characteristics of data used to calculate WHO trends in tobacco use, tobacco smoking and cigarette use among adults; estimates of global trends in prevalence of tobacco use among people aged 15 years  and older, by sex, 2000–2030; trends in prevalence of tobacco use by age; trends in prevalence of tobacco use by WHO region; trends in prevalence of tobacco use by World Bank income group; trends in the number of tobacco users; levels of tobacco use, smoking and cigarette use among adults in 2022; progress towards meeting tobacco use reduction targets; smokeless tobacco use among people aged 15 years and older; smokeless tobacco use among adolescents aged 13–15 years; any tobacco use among adolescents aged 13–15 years; cigarette smoking among adolescents aged 13–15 years; and, use of electronic nicotine devices including e-cigarettes

Tobacco Product Use Among U.S. Middle and High School Students — National Youth Tobacco Survey, 2023

November 3, 2023

World Health Organization

Tobacco: Key Facts

July 31, 2023

  • Tobacco kills up to half of its users who don’t quit.

  • Tobacco kills more than 8 million people each year, including an estimated 1.3 million non-smokers who are exposed to second-hand smoke.

  • Around 80% of the world's 1.3 billion tobacco users live in low- and middle-income countries.

  • In 2020, 22.3% of the world’s population used tobacco: 36.7% of men and 7.8% of women.

Facts from the Pan American Health Association (PAHO)

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