- 5% of the $40,700,000,000 received by states from the lawsuit against the tobacco companies has actually been spent on fighting smoking
- One out of every 11 workers in North Carolina depends on tobacco for their livelihood
- The first American advertisement for tobacco was published in 1789. It showed a picture of an Indian smoking a long clay pipe
- A study of 450 individuals found that people who smoke marijuana frequently but do not smoke tobacco have more health problems and miss more days of work than nonsmokers. Many of the extra sick days among the marijuana smokers in the study were for respiratory illnesses
- Mother Bernardina Matthews established a Carmelite convent near Port Tobacco, Maryland, the first community of Roman Catholic nuns in the Thirteen Colonies
- Tobacco kills one person every ten seconds
- Approximately 10 million cigarettes are purchased a minute
- About 15 billion cigarettes are sold each day
- About 5 trillion cigarettes are produced and used on an annual basis
