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Bookmark or Share- Smoking - Our World in DataContents. Tobacco smoking is one of the world’s largest health problems. Millions of people live in poor health because of smoking and researchers estimate that every year around 8 million people die an early death due to smoking. It has been a major health problem for many decades.
- Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults in the United StatesCigarette smoking remains the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States, accounting for more than 480,000 deaths every year, or about 1 in 5 deaths. 1 In 2021, nearly 12 of every 100 U.S. adults aged 18 years or older (11.5%) currently* smoked cigarettes.
- Smoking: Effects, Risks, Addiction, Quitting, TreatmentSmoking tobacco introduces not only nicotine but also more than 5,000 chemicals, including numerous carcinogens (cancer-causing chemicals), into your lungs, blood and organs. The damage caused by smoking can shorten your lifespan significantly. In fact, smoking is the number one cause of preventable death in the United States.
- Harms of Cigarette Smoking and Health Benefits of QuittingSmoking harms nearly every bodily organ and organ system in the body and diminishes a person’s overall health. Smoking causes cancers of the lung, esophagus, larynx, mouth, throat, kidney, bladder, liver, pancreas, stomach, cervix, colon, and rectum, as well as acute myeloid leukemia (1–3).
- Smoking and Tobacco Use | CDCBasic Information Information on the dangers of tobacco use, including its health effects and details on secondhand smoke and smokeless products. Commercial Tobacco and Health Equity Patterns, prevention, and treatment of tobacco use among population groups in the United States. Secondhand Smoke
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