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Rumored to be true:
Worldwide, tobacco kills more than two and a half million people prematurely every year.
(WHO--World Health Organization)
The Environmental Protection Agency has classified tobacco smoke as a class "A" carcinogen, along with such poisons as benzene and asbestos.
(EPA--Environmental Protection Agency)
45.8 million Americans continue to smoke.
(CDC--Centers for Disease Control)
Cigarette disease victims die more than twenty years before the life expectancy of nonsmokers.
(CDC--Centers for Disease Control)
Each year smoking kills more Americans than alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, homicide, suicide, automobile accidents, fires and AIDS combined.
(CDC--Centers for Disease Control)
In addition to lung cancer and emphysema, smoking is associated with cancers of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, pancreas, uterine cervix, kidney and bladder.
(ACS--American Cancer Society)
The total state and federal excise tax on tobacco products is $9 billion. That's one tenth of what it costs us to take care of smokers as they die.
(C. Everett Koop, MD, former Surgeon General)