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Tobacco’s Harm

Home» Tobacco’s Harm » Costs of Smoking In Minnesota

Costs of Smoking In Minnesota

Economic Costs

  • Annually, smoking costs Minnesota over $3 billion in health care costs and $4 billion in lost worker productivity.
  • The tobacco industry spends more than $100 million a year to market its products in Minnesota.
Emotional Costs

  • Whether it’s family, friends, coworkers or neighbors – maybe even the person who means the most – tobacco use leads to over 6,000 deaths in Minnesota a year.
  • In Minnesota, 574,000 moms, dads, sons, daughters, grandparents, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles continue to smoke.
  • Children of smokers are almost twice as likely to smoke as children of nonsmokers.
Health Costs

  • Smoking causes coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.
  • Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, causing many diseases and reducing the health of smokers in general.
  • Smoking accounts for an estimated 480,000 deaths each year in the U.S. – that’s nearly one of every five deaths.
Tobacco Industry is the Cause

  • Video games are a $9.4 billion dollar business in the United States, with sales higher than the movie box office.

  • Teens often chose video games over television, making games a way to reach a significant audience of potential smokers.

  • In the Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, cigarettes are given as rewards and cigarette warning labels are mocked.

  • Young adults are key market - they are experiencing transition, they experiment and they are influenced by their peers.

  • Tobacco companies sponsor events and hire "Cigarette Fairies" to distribute free products in bars and socialize with young adults.

  • Through charitable donations, the tobacco industry can claim it’s doing something positive for society – and can protect itself from regulations by arguing charities suffer when tobacco revenues drop.

  • One year, Philip Morris spent $100 million on PR to promote its corporate giving – more than the $75 million it spent on the giving itself.

  • Historically, free and discounted tobacco has hooked generations of soldiers.

  • Smoking rates in the military are significantly higher than in the general population.

  • Tobacco companies still send free cases of products to troops serving in the Middle East.

  • Regulations preventing direct youth marketing forced a different tactic by tobacco companies.

  • Sweet-flavored tobacco products are attractive “starter products” for youth because they “taste better.”

  • The FDA banned flavored cigarettes, but “little cigars” and smokeless tobacco are still available in candy and fruit flavors such as peach, grape and chocolate.

  • Smokeless tobacco is hard to detect, making it easy to use in places people cannot light up a cigarette.

  • Camel Snus comes in tea-bag-like pouches and requires no spitting.

  • Other new products resemble candies, mints and breath strips.

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