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Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: Annual state tobacco control spending report
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and their public health partners released their annual State Tobacco Settlement report assessing and ranking states on their funding of tobacco prevention and cessation programs. To access the report, click here. 

Tobacco use among adults - United States, 2005
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report for the week of October 27, 2006 summarized the results of data from the 2005 National Health Interview Survey. The report discusses current smoking prevalence, cigar smoking, use of smokeless tobacco, and cessation attempts, all health objectives of Healthy People 2010.  One important finding is that the 8-year decline in U.S. adult smoking rates may have stalled. Data are broken down by state, education level, race/ethnicity, and sex. Click here for the report.

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Tobacco-related diseases to take high toll, study finds
A study by World Health Organization researchers reveals that tobacco-related diseases including cancers and heart disease will kill 6.4 million people a year by 2015, 50 percent more than AIDS, and will be responsible for 10 percent of all deaths globally. Globally, the proportion of people dying from chronic diseases will rise to 70 percent, according to the study. Click here for more information.

China warned of rising tobacco use
Out of a population of 1.3 billion people, 350 million people in China are tobacco smokers, a group larger than the entire population of the United States. The number of Chinese smokers continues to rise, despite the Chinese government’s efforts to control tobacco use. If growing tobacco use continues at current trends, the WHO estimates that up 2.5 million people will die annually by 2025. China consumes about one third of the world’s cigarettes - 1.6 trillion cigarettes a year. Click here to read more.

Smoking costs China 250 billion Yuan last year
A report issued by the China Center for Economic Research reveals that the country incurred a loss of 250 billion Yuan ($32.5 billion U.S.) from smoking last year. Health case costs alone accounted for 167 billion Yuan of the total. Overall, the costs exceeded the pre-tax profits of the country’s tobacco industry, 240 billion Yuan, the largest source of China’s tax revenues. Click here to learn more.

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