Economic Costs
- Annually, smoking costs Minnesota nearly $3 billion in health care costs.1
- The tobacco industry spends an estimated $157 million a year to market its products in Minnesota.2
- The average cost of a pack of cigarettes in Minnesota is $5.58 – while each pack smoked in Minnesota costs an estimated $8.85 in medical expenses and lost productivity.3,4
Emotional Costs
- Whether it’s family, friends, coworkers or neighbors – maybe even the person who means the most – tobacco use leads to over 5,100 deaths in Minnesota a year.1
- In Minnesota, 625,000 moms, dads, sons, daughters, grandparents, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles continue to smoke.5
- Children of smokers are almost twice as likely to smoke as children of nonsmokers.6,7
Health Costs
- Smoking causes coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.8
- Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, causing many diseases and reducing the health of smokers in general.8
- Smoking accounts for an estimated 443,000 deaths each year in the U.S. – that’s nearly one of every five deaths.9,10
Tobacco Industry is the Cause