• Tobacco use causes cancer, heart disease, and lung diseases such as emphysema, bronchitis and chronic airway obstruction.
• Cigarette smoking is responsible for about one in five deaths in the U.S. (more than 480,000 deaths per year).
• Secondhand smoke exposure is responsible for an estimated 41,000 deaths per year.
• In the United States, cigarette smoking costs more than $170 billion in direct medical care annually.
• On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.
• Smoking during pregnancy causes pregnancy complications, premature births, low birth weight infants, stillbirth and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS.)

From Smoking & Tobacco Use - Fast Facts (CDC) linked below, retrieved 8 October 2018.

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