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Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, accounting for approximately 443,000 deaths—1 of every 5 deaths—each year. [7] Cigarette smoking alone has cost the United States $96 billion in direct medical expenses and $97 billion in lost productivity per year, or an average of $4,260 per adult smoker.
Among Americans with less education (9 to 11 years), the percentage of smokers was 32.6%. The prevalence of tobacco use was generally lower among those with higher levels of education. Excluding educational attainment, the highest prevalence of smoking in the U.S. was among adults aged 18–24 years (24.4%) and 25–44 years (24.1%).
Residents of 12 states in the South and Midwest are more likely to smoke – and to smoke more – than people living in the rest of the United States, according to a new report.
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English: World map of countries shaded according to their number of cigarettes smoked per adult per year, 2007. x = a n n u a l c o n s u m p t i o n o f c i g a r e t t e s p o p u l a t i o n {\displaystyle \mathrm {x} ={\frac {\mathrm {annual\ consumption\ of\ cigarettes} }{\mathrm {population} }}}
A map of the USA showing which states have enacted smoking bans. States with smoke-free bars are blue, smoke-free restaurants red, and smoke-free workplaces green. States which have smoke-free laws in more than one of these locations use additive coloring: 01:16, 20 June 2007: 286 × 186 (167 KB) Mike Schiraldi
The researchers also noted that exposure to the burning of solid fuels in households for heating and cooking could be a factor in rising lung cancer cases among Chinese women who had never smoked.
The pattern of smoking among youth has had a slightly different trajectory, such that smoking rates for high school students began to increase in the early 1990s and did not begin to decrease until the end of the decade. [6] If the current smoking trends continue, 5.6 million youths alive today will die prematurely. [7]