Smoking in the LGBT Community
(courtesy of Howard Brown Health Center)

Several factors such as higher levels of social stress, frequent patronage of bars and clubs, higher rates of alcohol and drug use, and direct targeting of LGBT consumers by the tobacco industry may be related to higher prevalence rates of tobacco use among some LGBT people.
LGBT individuals are 40-70% more likely to smoke than non-LGBT.
GBT men are 50% more likely to smoke than the general population and LBT women are almost 200% more likely to smoke than the general population.
LGBT adolescents are taking up smoking at an alarming rate - in a recent national study 45% of females and 35% of males reporting same-sex attraction or behavior smoked. In comparison, only 29% of the rest of the youth smoked.
The American Cancer Society estimates that over 30,000 LGBT people die each year of tobacco-related diseases. This is a very conservative estimate, because it presumes we smoke at the same rate as the general population.
Tobacco companies offer an unknown amount of financial support to LGBT festivals, bars, media, and local organizations. Sometimes this money comes with conditions, for example, some gay bars are prohibited from allowing any anti-tobacco promotion onsite.

Please check out these links about GLBT Smoking, if you are concerned or want to quit smoking.