Annual tobacco industry expenditures lobbying Congress in 2020: $28.2 million.Tobacco company PAC contributions to federal candidates, 2020 election cycle: More than $1.1 million.Research studies have found that kids are three times as sensitive to tobacco advertising than adults and are more likely to be influenced to smoke by cigarette marketing than by peer pressure and that a third of underage experimentation with smoking is attributable to tobacco company advertising and promotion. Annual tobacco industry spending on marketing its products nationwide: $8.2 billion ($22.5 million each day).Tobacco Industry Advertising & Political Influence Average retail price per pack in the U.S.Smoking-caused health costs and productivity losses per pack sold in U.S.Taxpayers yearly fed/state tax burden from smoking-caused gov't spending: $1,223 per household.Other non-healthcare costs from tobacco use include residential and commercial property losses from smoking-caused fires, tobacco-related cleaning & maintenance, and expenditures through Social Security Survivors Insurance for kids who have lost at least one parent from a smoking-caused death. Productivity losses caused by smoking each year: $181 billion Also not included above are costs from smokeless or spit tobacco use, adult secondhand smoke exposure, or pipe/cigar smoking.
through VA health care): $20.5 billionĪnnual health care expenditures solely from secondhand smoke exposure: $6.99 billionĪdditional smoking-caused health costs caused by tobacco use include annual expenditures for health and developmental problems of infants and children caused by mothers smoking or being exposed to second-hand smoke during pregnancy or by kids being exposed to parents smoking after birth.
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