Tobacco Use in Florida

Kids & Tobacco Use

• High school students who smoke: 15.7% (142,500)

• Male high school students who use smokeless or spit tobacco: 9.2% (females use much lower)

• Kids (under 18) who become new daily smokers each year: 24,700

• Kids exposed to secondhand smoke at home: 692,000

• Packs of cigarettes bought or smoked by kids each year: 29.4 million

Adults & Tobacco Use

• Adults who smoke: 21.7% (2,906,400)

Deaths from Smoking

• Adults who die each year from their own smoking: 28,600

• Kids now under 18 and alive who will ultimately die prematurely from smoking: 296,900

• Adults, children, & babies who die each year from others' smoking (secondhand smoke & pregnancy smoking): 2,250 to 4,000

Smoking-Caused Monetary Costs

• Annual healthcare costs directly caused by smoking: $5.82 billion

• Portion covered by the state Medicaid program: $1.10 billion

• Residents' state & federal tax burden from smoking-caused government expenditure: $554 per household

• Smoking-caused productivity losses: $6.17 billion

Above amounts do not include:

• Health costs caused by exposure to secondhand smoke

• Smoking-caused fires

• Spit tobacco use, or cigar and pipe smoking

Other non-health costs from tobacco use include:

• Residential and commercial property losses from smoking-caused fires: More than $500 million per year nationwide

• Extra cleaning and maintenance costs made necessary by tobacco smoke and litter: Over $4 billion nationwide for commercial establishments alone

• Additional productivity losses from smoking-caused work absences, smoking breaks, and on-the-job performance declines and early termination of employment caused by smoking-caused disability or illness (dollar amount listed above is just from productive work lives shortened by smoking-caused death)

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