The video notes that tobacco-related illnesses kill 10 times as many Americans each year as car accidents.

"How many people here have lost someone they love through a tobacco-related illness?"

Talk directly to children about the risks of tobacco use; if friends or relatives died from tobacco-related illnesses, let your kids know.

Moreover, he said, tobacco-related illnesses cost the Government $50 billion a year.

The Government estimates that 3,000 children begin smoking each day, one-third of whom will die from tobacco-related illnesses.

The money is compensation for the costs of tobacco-related illnesses.

Yet no one questions reimbursement of the huge costs arising from tobacco-related illness.

The new proposal would also force tobacco companies to contribute to a fund to help states pay for the treatment of tobacco-related illnesses.

More than 30,000 New York residents die annually from tobacco-related illness.

Seven thousand deaths a year are ascribed to tobacco-related illnesses in Ireland.