12 Apr 2002
According to a recent report by the Centers for Disease control and Prevention, cigarette smoking is not only the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, but the habit also leads to a substantial amount of health-related costs.
The CDC calculated estimates to determine how smoking affected mortality, years of potential life, medical expenses, and productivity costs for adults.
Highlights from the report include:
· More than 440,000 people in the United States were killed each year from smoking between 1995-1999.
· 124,813 people died from lung cancer; 81,976 died from heart disease, and 64,735 died from chronic airway obstruction.
· Adult male smokers lost an average of 13.2 years of life and adult female smokers lost 14.5 years-not including deaths from exposure to secondhand smoke.
· Smoking during pregnancy resulted in 1,000 infant deaths per year.
· $3,391 is spent on smoking per smoker, per year.
· In 1999 alone, 22 billion packs of cigarettes were sold in the United States.
· Over $150 billion in economic losses from 1995-1999 can be attributed to smoking- $81.9 billion of which were “mortality-related productivity losses.”
SOURCE: The Center for Disease Control and Prevention, MMWR Weekly, April 12, 2002, www.cdc.gov; Alternative Medicine, September 2002, p.24
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