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 Tobacco
Use
Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death in this country.
- An estimated 45.8 million adults in the United States smoke cigarettes.
- More than 8.6 million Americans currently suffer from at least one serious
illness caused by smoking.
- Use of other smoked tobacco products, such as cigars and pipes, also lead
to addiction, disease, and death.
- Smokeless tobacco has
also been determined to be a human carcinogen.
Secondhand Smoke
Secondhand
smoke is a known human cancer causing agent. Exposure to secondhand smoke
appears to be strongly related to an increased risk of developing lung cancer.
- A growing body of evidence suggests that secondhand smoke causes heart disease.
- Even short-term exposure for as little as 30 minutes may compromise coronary
circulation in nonsmokers.
- Every year in the United Sates 3,000 nonsmokers die of lung cancer and 35,000
die from heart disease as a result of secondhand smoke.
- Exposure to secondhand smoke is associated with an increased risk for sudden
infant death syndrome (SIDS), asthma, bronchitis, and pneumonia in young children.
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