More than 46 million, nearly 21% of adults in the United States, smoke, according to a 2010 report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Smoking rates remained constant from 2005 - 2009.
Smoking kills more than 5 million people a year worldwide, accounting for 1 out of every 10 adult deaths.
There are more than 400,000 tobacco-related deaths annually in the U.S. Health statistics estimate about 3,000 teenagers try and then... Read more »
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About a year ago I wrote about some of the issues surrounding smoking and schizophrenia; how the rate of smoking in people with this... Read more »
Greetings! After introducing myself in my first post, I want to use this post to discuss the growing global smoking problem. In the US and... Read more »
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated, 20.8% of all adults (45.3 million people) smoke cigarettes in... Read more »
Although both smoking and hypertension had previously been shown to be linked with premature death, the magnitude of the effect found in a recent... Read more »
Results from a new study suggest that depression may take as many years off sufferers' lives as smoking. Researchers looked at death records and a... Read more »
Men who gain weight or who smoke after a prostatectomy double their risk of prostate cancer recurrence and death, a new study suggests. The study on... Read more »
Source: Medifocus Guidebook on: Smoking Cessation
Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of premature death in the United States. Each year, more than 440,000 Americans die of tobacco-related... Read more »
According to a study by British scientists, heart disease will be responsible for 400,000 deaths in the United States in 2010. The researchers say... Read more »