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Cigarette Smoking-Related Mortality

Cigarette smoking is the single most preventable cause of premature death in the United States. Each year, more than 400,000 Americans die from cigarette smoking. In fact, one in every five deaths in the United States is smoking related. Every year, smoking kills more than 276,000 men and 142,000 women.1
• Between 1960 and 1990, deaths from lung cancer among women have increased by more than 400%—exceeding breast cancer deaths in the mid-1980s.2 The American Cancer Society estimated that in 1994, 64,300 women died from lung cancer and 44,300 died from breast cancer.3

• Men who smoke increase their risk of death from lung cancer by more than 22 times and from bronchitis and emphysema by nearly 10 times. Women who smoke increase their risk of dying from lung cancer by nearly 12 times and the risk of dying from bronchitis and emphysema by more than 10 times. Smoking triples the risk of dying from heart disease among middle-aged men and women.1

• Every year in the United States, premature deaths from smoking rob more than five million years from the potential lifespan of those who have died.1

• Annually, exposure to secondhand smoke (or environmental tobacco smoke) causes an estimated 3,000 deaths from lung cancer among American adults.4 Scientific studies also link secondhand smoke with heart disease.


Disease Men Women Overall

Cancers
Lung 81,179 35,741 116,920
Lung from ETS 1,055 1,945 3,000
Other 21,659 9,743 31,402
Total 103,893 47,429 151,322

Cardiovascular Diseases
Hypertension 3,233 2,151 5,450
Heart Disease 88,644 45,591 134,235
Stroke 14,978 8,303 23,281
Other 11,682 5,172 16,854
Total 118,603 61,117 179,820

Respiratory Diseases
Pneumonia 11,292 7,881 19,173
Bronchitis/ Emphysema 9,234 5,541 14,865
Chronic Airway Obstruction 30,385 18,579 48,982
Other 787 668 1,455
Total 51,788 32,689 84,475

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