Quick Facts on Smoking
1. Tobacco kills over 18000 Australians every year.
2. Of 1,000 young Australian males who smoke, 1 will be murdered, 15 will be killed on the road and 250 will be killed by a tobacco related illness.
3. In Australia approximately 30% of men and 27% of women are smoke regularly.
4. Australia has approximately 5.3 million smokers: they smoke on average 18 cigarettes per day or a total of 34, 821 million cigarettes each year.
5. The proportion of Australian males who smoke fell from 40% in 1980 to 30% in 1989. The number of female smokers fell from 31% to 27% over the same period.
6. Worldwide, 47 percent of men and 12 percent of women smoke a total of 6 trillion cigarettes a year.
7. Smoking results in over 900,000 hospital bed days and cost over $700 million in hospital costs alone annually.
8. Australian school children spend more than $30 million a year - $82,000 each day - on cigarettes.
9. Around 140 Australians die each year from lung cancer caused by breathing other people’s smoke.
10. In Australia 2.9 million people have already succeeded in quitting.
Please take the time to read our frequently asked questions and also our smoking quiz to see if it is time to quit smoking.
