The Tobacco Death Rate

• More than 47,000 Canadians die each year of a tobacco related disease. That's 129 every day!
  
  
• Tobacco industry products kill 1300 New Brunswickers each year.
  
  
• Every year tobacco industry products kill six times more Canadians than car accidents, murders, suicides and alcohol combined.
  
  
• Globally more than 4 million people die from tobacco related illnesses each year.
  - WHO (World Health Organization)
  
  
• Tobacco use accounts for more than 20% of all deaths in Canada

Youth Smoking

Second-Hand Smoke Stats

• Second-hand smoke is more dangerous than directly inhaled smoke. Second-hand smoke releases the same 4,000 chemicals as smoke that is directly inhaled, but in even greater quantity. Approximately 50 of these chemicals (carcinogens) cause cancer.
  
  
• Nearly 400 non-smoking Canadians die each year from lung cancer due to second-hand smoke.
  
  
• Second-hand smoke exposure causes about 163 deaths per year in New Brunswick, 1100 deaths per year in Canada.
  
  
• Second-hand smoke is estimated to cost New Brunswick, $15 million a year in health care costs and $39 million a year in lost productivity for a total economic loss of $54 million each year.
  
  
• Due to second-hand smoke, children of smokers are 2-4 times more likely to get allergies and asthma than the children of non-smokers. Second-hand smoke exposure to children increases the risk of bronchitis by 46%, asthma attacks by 43%, middle ear tube insertions by 38%, and ear infections by 19%.
  
  
• Second-hand smoke causes the death of 120 Canadian babies from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Second-hand tobacco smoke increases the risk of miscarriages by 170%, increases the risk of premature birth by 300%, and increases the risk of stillbirth by 55%.
  
  
• Second-hand tobacco smoke contains nearly twice the amount of tar and nicotine, five times more carbon monoxide and 50 times more ammonia than the smoke directly inhaled by the smoker.

Smokeless (spit) Tobacco

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