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Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch

Factoids from the Surgeon General's Report

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Smoking risks are more deadly now than 50 years ago...

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Smoking causes colorectal and liver cancer and increases the failure rate of treatment for all cancers.

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Women smokers are up to 40 times more likely to develop COPD...

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Smokers are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes...

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1 out of 3 cancer deaths is caused by smoking

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7,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke.

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We know what works to end the tobacco epidemic...

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Secondhand smoke exposure is known to cause strokes in nonsmokers

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5.6 million children will die early from smoking if...

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Smoking starts in childhood by the thousands every day

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In addition to cancer, heart disease and stroke, new findings show that smoking causes...

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Since 1964 more than 20 million Americans have died because of smoking...

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SIDS more common in babies whose mothers smoked

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Smoking causes age-related macular degeneration

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Evidence has linked smoking to diseases of nearly all organs of the body

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Smoking causes high rates of lung cancer, coronary heart disease deaths, and COPD

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We know what works to save lives: Quit

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Every adult who dies from smoking is replaced by 2 smokers, one of whom will also die early from smoking

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Updated: February 26, 2020