Below are the citations for the “It’s time for smoking to come out of the closet” infograph:
Number breakdown: How much money do LGBT’s spend on cigarettes per year in the US?
| 317,366,702 | US population[1] | |
| (multiply by) 3.5% | Percentage of US population that is LGBT[2] | |
| = 11,107,834.57 | Number of LGBT people in the US | |
| (multiply by) 32.8% | Percent of LGBT who smoke[3] | |
| = 3,643,369.74 | Number of LGBT smokers | |
| (multiply by) 19.67 | Average number of cigarette/day smoked by LGBT[4] | |
| = 71,665,082.77 | Total LGBT cigarettes smoked/day | |
| (multiply by) 365 | Days/year | |
| = 26,157,755,209.35 | Number of cigarettes smoked per year by LGBT | |
| (divided by) 20 | Cigarettes/pack | |
| = 1,307,887,760.47 | LGBT smoked packs/year | |
| (multiply by) $6.03 | Average Cost/pack[5] | |
|
Total amount that LGBT spend/year on cigarettes | |
| (divided by) $120,000,000.00 | Amount that funders spend on LGBT issues[6] | |
|
Total $$ on cigs/Total $$ on LGBT funding = # of times more money that LGBT spend on cigarettes, than grant makers spend on all LGBT funding. |
[1] US population per census population clock (10:31am 1/14/14) http://www.census.gov/popclock/
[3] AJPH article on NATS: Current Tobacco Use Among Adults in the United States: Findings From the National Adult Tobacco Survey
Brian A. King, Shanta R. Dube, Michael A. Tynan
American Journal of Public Health: November 2012, Vol. 102, No. 11, pp. e93-e100
[4] Email from Brian King about NATS data (run a day ago)
[6] LGBTQ funding report: http://www.lgbtfunders.org/resources/LGBTFundersTracking.cfm
Other quoted numbers:
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Life Years Lost |
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5.1 |
HIV |
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12.3 |
HIV and Smoking |
Study link: http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/12/15/cid.cis933.abstract
| 19.50% | % of US population that smokes cigarettes |
| 32.80% | % of LGBT population (in US) that smokes cigarettes |
Citation: AJPH article on NATS: Current Tobacco Use Among Adults in the United States: Findings From the National Adult Tobacco Survey, Brian A. King, Shanta R. Dube, Michael A. Tynan, American Journal of Public Health: November 2012, Vol. 102, No. 11, pp. e93-e100
Special thank you to: Brian A. King, Ronald Stall, Bob Gordon, Judy Bradford, Francisco Buchting, and Joseph Lee for help assembling this information.
LGBT HealthLink, The Network for Health Equity 
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