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Health Damage from Smoking
90% of all lung cancer
in men and 79% of all lung cancers in women are caused by smoking. Over all 30% of all
cancer deaths are related to smoking. For a heavy smoker the risk of dying of lung cancer
is 12 to 25 times higher. Other cancers increased include: throat, esophagus, pancreas,
kidney, bladder, stomach and cervix
In 1990 smoking deaths included: 179,000 cardiac, 150,000 cancer and 84,000
pulmonary. Over 400,000 Americans are killed each year and worldwide the number is 3
million. It is estimated that worldwide, 250 million people alive today will die from
tobacco related diseases.
The economic cost of smoking in Florida in 1995 was estimated as greater than
$5.8 billion. Along with cancer, cardiac, pulmonary disease and stroke, smoking causes
macular degeneration and impotence
Smoking Harm
Health Information from the CDC
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