The Tobacco Epidemic

Table of Contents

• The Tobacco Epidemic

• Cigarette advertising and promotion expenditures in the United States quadrupled in 16 years

• Image Messages

• Tobacco Use By Children & Adults:No Longer Declining

• The Problem of Tobacco Use Among Young People

• North Carolina High School Rates

• PPT Slide

• Cigarette smoking among adults in North Carolina, by race and gender

• Criteria For Drug Dependence

• Why Do You Smoke?

• Lifecycle of a Smoker

• The AHCPR Clinical Practice Guideline on Smoking Cessation

• Cigarettes kill more Americans than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, murders, suicides, drugs and fires combined.

• 1 in 5 Deaths in North Carolina are From Smoking

• Changing Social Norms

• PPT Slide