Why should you worry about e-cigarettes?

  • ​Even though the FDA now has oversight of e-cigarettes, manufacturers have until August 8, 2018 to tell us what is in their products.  Until then, we won't know what's in those products!
  • ​Researchers have found over 7,700 unique flavors most of which are candy-related flavors appealing to youth.
  •  81.5 percent of current youth e-cigarette users said they used e-cigarettes “because they come in flavors I like.”


9.7% (9,200)


11.1%​(females are much lower)


800



61,000



3.3 million


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17.2% (198,900)

High school students who smoke


Male high school students who use smokeless or spit tobacco


Kids (under 18) who become new daily smokers each year


​Kids exposed to secondhand smoke at home


Packs of cigarettes bought or smoked by kids each year


Adults in Idaho who smoke

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Adults who die each year from their own smoking


Kids now under 18 and alive in Idaho who will intimately die prematurely from smoking


Adult nonsmokers who die each year from exposure to secondhand smoke

Tobacco Use in Idaho

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1,800




30,000





220

Source: "The Toll of Tobacco in Idaho", Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (American Legacy Foundation), 2017.

Tobacco is a major health concern and e-cigarettes are adding to the problem.


Deaths in Idaho from Smoking​​

Source: "E-cigarettes and Youth", Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (American Legacy Foundation), 2017.


For more information, please contact Liz Hall,

Community Engagement Manager,

at liz.hall@lung.org

or at (208)345-2209.

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What can you do to help?

  • Increase your community's awareness of the problem

  • Demand effective action
  • Educate your community leaders and make them aware of why you are concerned about tobacco's toll in Idaho and why they should be too.


Tobacco Costs Everyone

  • $508 million = annual health care costs in Idaho caused by smoking​

  • $100.5 million = portion covered by Idaho's Medicaid program
  • $627 per household - Residents' state & federal tax burden from smoking-caused government expenditures
  • $433.9 million = annual smoking-related productivity loss in Idaho


Why should you worry about e-cigarettes?

  • ​Studies have shown that students who use e-cigarettes are more likely to smoke traditional cigarettes within the next year than students who didn't.
  • ​​ 76% of the e-cigarette liquid contains diacetyl, a flavoring that when heated and inhaled causes broniolitis obliterans or popcorn lung, which is incurable. 
  •  Over half of middle and high school students have been exposed to e-cigarette advertisements in retail stores, the most common source of exposure to e-cigarette marketing.