Bureau of Tobacco Control

The Dangers of Smoking

Smoking kills. It's as simple as that. But, if you need more help making up your mind, here are some alarming facts about smoking that you may not have known.

Publications Related to Quitting

• • Quit Yet? (Smoking Cessation Fact Sheet)
  Other languages: Spanish | Chinese | Korean | Russian | Urdu | Polish
• • Frequently Asked Questions About Quitting
• • Reasons to Quit
• • Benefits of Quitting Smoking
• • Quit Tips
• • You Can Quit Smoking- Easy To Read Consumer Booklet
• • More publications...

Websites Related to Quitting

• • The New York State Smoker's Quitsite
• • National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Cancer Society
  • National Cancer Institute
  • Smokefree.gov 
  • American Cancer Society    
• • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Smoking Information
• • Arizona Department of Health Services
• • Massachusetts Department of Public Health
• • New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services

Other Publications

• • Health Bulletin #46: Still Smoking? Cigarettes are eating you alive
• • Health Bulletin #63: How to Make Your Home Smoke-Free 
• • Diseases Caused by Smoking
• • Fact Sheet: Tobacco, The Leading Epidemic of Our Time
• • Fact Sheet: Second-Hand Smoke Kills
• • Youth and Tobacco
• • Surgeon General’s 2004 Report: The Health Consequences of Smoking on the Human Body (animation)

Top entries from the "Kick Butts Day" Anti-Smoking Poster Contest

Last Update on 9/9/2005