Tobacco kills almost 4,000,000 people worldwide every single year. That's one death every 8 seconds !!

By 2025, the World Health Organization expects the worldwide death toll to rise to 10,000,000 !!

In American alone, over 400,000 people die from tobacco related illnesses each and every year. That's 1,200 a day !!

If current trends continue, 377, 467 New York youth now under age 18 will die of tobacco-related illnesses !!

Tobacco kills more people than AIDS, murder, drugs, alcohol, suicide and car crashes combined !!

3,000 teens start smoking every day, more that 1 million a year !!

More than 3 million kids age 12-17 are current smokers !!

32% of New York high school students are current smokers !!

Roughly 1/3 of them will eventually die from smoking !!

Almost 90% of smokers started at or before age 18 !!

73% of teen smokers who plan to quit are still smoking 5 years later !!

18.7 million packs of cigarettes a year are illegally sold to New York youth !!