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September 8, 2011
September 2011 Vital Signs Issue: Adult Smoking in the US (CDC)
This report presents the latest information about adult smoking in the United States and examines changes in smoking rates and patterns of smoking during 2005 -2010. The percentage of American adults who smoke decreased from 20.9% in 2005 to 19.3% in 2010 - about 3 million fewer smokers. But almost 1 in 5 adults still smoke.
August 30, 2011
Tobacco Use: Targeting the Nation's Leading Killer - At A Glance 2011 (CDC)
Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking. Despite these risks, approximately 46.6 million U.S. adults smoke cigarettes. Smokeless tobacco, cigars, and pipes also have deadly consequences, including lung, larynx, esophageal, and oral cancers. ...
August 5, 2011
Saving Lives, Saving Money (ACS CAN)
Tobacco use remains the nation's number one cause of preventable death, killing approximately 443,000 Americans and costing $96 billion in direct health care costs each year. Two new reports from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) measure the dramatic health and economic benefits of enacting strong tobacco control policies in the states. The reports quantify lives saved, reduction in smokers and health costs saved in each state from implementing comprehensive smoke-free laws or tobacco tax increases.
The results provide advocates and lawmakers with new concrete evidence that smoke-free laws and tobacco taxes are win-win: they save lives and save money