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- Smoking is the single most preventable cause
of mortality, responsible for one in every six deaths.
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- Every 13 seconds, someone dies from tobacco.
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- There are over 400,000 deaths caused by smoking
each year in the United States.
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- Smoking causes more deaths every year than fires,
automobile crashes, alcohol, cocaine, heroin, AIDS, murders and suicides
COMBINED.
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- Smoking causes nearly 90% of all lung cancer
and throat cancer.
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- Smoking causes 32% of fatal cancers, 21% of fatal
heart disease adn 88% of fatal chronic lung disearse.
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- Lung cancer has surpassed breast cancer as the
leading cancer killer among women.
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- Smoking is associated with cancers of the mouth,
pharynx, larynx, esophagus, pancreas, uterus, cervix, kidney and bladder.
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- Smoking is the principle cause of coronary heart
disease - the most common cause of death in the United States.
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- Smoking causes atherosclerosis (hardening of
the arteries) and stroke.
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- People who smoke a pack a cigarettes a day have
more than twice the risk of heart attack as compared to people who have
never smoked. And people who smoke two or more packs have a risk of heart
attack three times greater.
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- Passive smoke, commonly referred to as second-hand
smoke (or environmental tobacco smoke), kills some 50,000 Americans each
year, making it the third-leading cause of preventable death.
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- One nonsmoker dies of second-hand smoke for every
eight smokers.
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