Research on the Causes and Prevention of Youth Tobacco Use

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Search our Research Database Attend our Annual Meeting Tobacco use in the United States results in over 480,000 deaths per year—a greater toll in human life than that exacted by car accidents, suicides, drug and alcohol use, murders, and HIV/AIDS combined. In monetary terms, tobacco use results in over $96 billion in public and private health care costs each year, and reduces the productivity of Americans by $97 billion per year. If current trends go unchecked, American taxpayers will continue to pay on a yearly basis more than $500 per household to finance the social costs of tobacco use, and more than 6 million people now under the age of 18 will die from the effects of tobacco. In Virginia alone, people spend more than $1.5 billion on tobacco-use-related health care, and over 9,000 peop...