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Tobacco & Missouri. Do you know the facts?

1. Approximately how much does the tobacco industry spend each year marketing their products to Missourians?
 
2. Smoking does not cause worker productivity losses in Missouri.
 
3. The estimated number of high school students who smoke in Missouri is _____.
 
4. 27% of adults in Missouri smoke.
 
5. At 17 cents per pack, Missouri has the 3rd lowest excise tax rate for cigarette sales in the country.
 
6. In Missouri, the annual health care costs attributed to smoking is _____ .
 
7. How many packs of cigarettes are bought or smoked by Missouri kids each year?
 
8. How many Missouri adults die each year from their own smoking?
 
9. Missouri's rate of high school students who smoke is ____ than the national rate of 21.9%.
 
10. Missouri's largest airport, St. Louis Lambert International Airport, is smokefree.
 
11. Of the $243.9 million from tobacco settlement payments and tobacco taxes, Missouri currently allocates ______ for tobacco prevention.
 
12. Smoking kills more people than _____.
 

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