Smoking is responsible for several diseases, such as cancer, long-term (chronic) respiratory diseases, and heart disease,
as well as premature death. Over 440,000 people in the USA and 100,000
in the UK die because of smoking each year. According the US CDC
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), $92 billion are lost each
year from lost productivity resulting from smoking-related deaths.
Of the more than 2.4 million deaths in the USA annually, over 440,000 are caused by smoking.
Smoking is the largest cause of preventable death in the world. Recent
studies have found that smokers can undermine the health of non-smokers
in some environments.
In an article published online in Medical News Today on 30 May 2013, we presented data demonstrating that, on average, smokers die ten years sooner than non-smokers.
