Sunday, Aug. 14, 2005
Numbers
$15.2 billion
Amount major cigarette makers spent on advertising and promotions in 2003, up 21.5% from 2002 and the most ever reported
$72.9 million
Amount the manufacturers spent in 2003 on ads intended to reduce youth smoking, down 1.8% from 2002
1.5 million
Homes situated within the boundaries of national forests in 2000, triple the number in 1950
17
Percent of national forests that are private property
$100 million
Ticket price for a proposed trip around the moon, on a ship like the one below, run by a private U.S. firm and the Russian Space Agency
Tourists who have paid $20 million apiece to orbit Earth, since 2001
50
Consecutive hours a man played games online in a South Korean cybercafe before he died of heart failure
28
His age, in years
Sources: Federal Trade Commission (2); University of Wisconsin-Madison (2); New York Times (2); Reuters (2)