Tobacco and Health
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date published 18/07/2007
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SummaryCurrently, about 46 million individuals in the United States are cigarette smokers, including 26% of men and 22% of women. People who are less well educated and/or have unskilled occupations are more likely to smoke.
Smoking is responsible for about 430,000 preventable U.S. deaths annually. A lifelong smoker has about a one in three chance of dying prematurely from a complication of smoking.
Smoking is the major preventable cause of death in developed countries.
Other forms of tobacco use include pipes and cigars (used by 8.7% of men and 0.3% of women) and smokeless tobacco (5.5% of men and 1% of women).
Smokeless tobacco use in the United States is primarily oral snuff and chewing tobacco, whereas nasal snuff is used to a greater extent in the United Kingdom. Oral snuff (snus) is widely used by men in Sweden.
Table of Contents- Epidemiology
- Harmful Constituents of Tobacco
- Tobacco Addiction
- Tobacco-Related Diseases
- CANCER
- CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
- PULMONARY DISEASE
- OTHER COMPLICATIONS
- Health Hazards of Smokeless Tobacco
- Second Hand Smoke
- Benefits of Quitting
- Treatment of Nicotine Addiction
- Recommendations
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