On This Page. Diseases and Death. For every person who dies because of smoking, at least 30 people live with a serious smoking-related illness.
Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD , which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Smoking also increases risk for tuberculosis, certain eye diseases, and problems of the immune system, including rheumatoid arthritis.
Smoking is a known cause of erectile dysfunction in males. Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death. Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 7 million deaths per year. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1, deaths every day. This represents about one in every 13 Americans aged 17 years or younger who are alive today. Costs and Expenditures. Smoking costs the United States billions of dollars each year. Price discounts to retailers account for These are discounts paid in order to reduce the price of cigarettes to consumers.
Right now, though, the states only use a very small amount of that money to prevent and control tobacco use. Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia spend less than 20 percent of what the CDC recommends. One state, Connecticut, gives no state funds for prevention and quit-smoking programs.
Cigarette Smoking in the US. Thousands of young people start smoking cigarettes every day. Exposure to secondhand smoke causes an estimated 41, deaths each year among adults in the United States: 1 Secondhand smoke causes 7, annual deaths from lung cancer.
Increased Risk for Death Among Men. Men who smoke increase their risk of dying from bronchitis and emphysema by 17 times; from cancer of the trachea, lung, and bronchus by more than 23 times. Increased Risk for Death Among Women.
Women who smoke increase their risk of dying from bronchitis and emphysema by 12 times; from cancer of the trachea, lung, and bronchus by more than 12 times. Death from Specific Diseases. Department of Health and Human Services. A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta: U. New England Journal of Medicine, ; 4 —50 [accessed Aug 17]. National Cancer Institute. Cigars: Health Effects and Trends external icon. Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph No. Bethesda MD : U. The latest study can be found at the website of The Lancet here: TheLancet.
There are two publications that are closely related to the annually updated Global Burden of Disease study:. While the overall GBD is published annually, the researchers from this same study also publish major publications that focus on particular risk factors less frequently.
The last such GBD-related study that focused on the global health impact from smoking was published in The Lancet in early In this study the researchers estimate that smoking tobacco accounted for 7. Reference: Reitsma et al. In The Lancet , , — The GBD estimates are also presented in yet another prominent publication. In the map here we see the share of deaths attributed to direct smoking across the world.
There were several countries in where more than 1-in-5 deaths resulted from smoking, including China, Denmark, the Netherlands, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Greenland. Related chart— the share of deaths from secondhand smoke. This map shows the share of premature deaths attributed from secondhand smoke across the world.
In the interactive map we show death rates from tobacco smoking across the world. Death rates measure the number of premature deaths from smoking per , people in a given country or region. We see large differences in death rates across the world. Rates tend to be highest across Asia and Eastern Europe, where figures are often over , and in some cases over deaths per , people. Across some of the lowest-income countries in the world, such as Sudan or Nigeria where very few people smoke, death rates are around ten times lower.
Related chart — number of deaths from smoking. This map shows the annual number of deaths from tobacco smoking across the world. When we look at the breakdown of deaths from smoking by age we see that it is mainly older populations that are affected. In the visualizations we show the death rates from smoking by age category, and the share of annual deaths which occur in each age group. Here we see that death rates from smoking are much higher in people older than 70 years old, followed by those aged 50 to Death rates for younger adults and children are very low.
Globally, death rates from smoking have fallen from per , people in to 90 per , in But where in the world are death rates falling or rising?
In the scatterplot here we see the comparison of smoking death rates in shown on the y-axis versus the death rate in on the x-axis. The grey line is the line of parity: countries which lie along this line had equal death rates in as in Countries which lie above the grey line had higher death rates in ; those which lie below the grey line had higher rates in We see that almost all countries in the world lie above the grey line: this means that most countries have achieved a decline in death rates from smoking in recent decades.
The declining global trend is reflected almost everywhere across the world. Death rates from smoking have been declining in most countries over the past few decades.
But what is happening to the number of deaths from smoking? Here, the story is largely divided along lines of income. In the scatterplot here we see the comparison of the number of deaths from smoking in shown on the y-axis versus the number of deaths in on the x-axis.
The grey line is the line of parity: countries which lie along this line had equal number of deaths in as in Countries which lie above the grey line had more deaths in ; those which lie below the grey line had more deaths in What we find is that the total number of deaths attributed to smoking are falling in many rich countries today. This means more people were dying as a result of smoking a few decades ago versus today. The opposite is true for most low and middle income countries today.
Although death rates from smoking tend to be falling, population growth and ageing in these countries means the total number of deaths has continued to increase in recent decades.
If we are to reverse the trends in the total number of deaths in most countries, death rates will need to fall much more quickly than they have been. Related chart — global deaths from smoking over time. This chart shows the global number of deaths from smoking and secondhand smoke each year. It can also be viewed by country. In the map we see the share of adults, aged 15 years and older, who smoke tobacco.
Three are Pacific islands and two are in the Balkans:. The places where many people smoke are clustered in two regions. There are several factors which influence the prevalence of smoking. One is prosperity: if we look at the relationship between smoking prevalence and income we find that richer countries tend to smoke more.
But as you see in this correlation there are very large differences at each level of income. Smoking rates are high across many countries, but we know from experience that this can change quickly. The rise, peak, then decline of smoking is one we see across many countries. The prevalence of smoking also differs significantly between men and women.
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