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Link to article Smoking and Tobacco use:: Fact sheet from the CDC
Some important Highlights:
Morbidity and Mortality (Related to Tobacco Use)
Tobacco and Disease
- Tobacco use causes—
- Cancer
- Heart disease
- Lung diseases (including emphysema, bronchitis, and chronic airway obstruction)
- Cigarette smoking increases the length of time that people live with a disability by about 2 years.
- For every person who dies from a smoking-related disease, 20 more people suffer with at least one serious illness from smoking.
Tobacco and Death
Worldwide
- Tobacco use causes more than 5 million deaths per year.
- Current trends show that tobacco use will cause more than 8 million deaths annually by 2030.
- On average, smokers die 13 to 14 years earlier than nonsmokers.
In the United States
- Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death.
- Cigarette smoking is responsible for about one in five deaths annually, or about 443,000 deaths per year.
- An estimated 49,000 of tobacco-related deaths are the result of secondhand smoke exposure.