COPD is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Russian Federation - Tobacco is a major cause of male mortality in the Russian Federation. Three-fourths of those men were under 70 years of age. Although tobacco use has declined dramatically in the U.K., the death rate attributable to COPD and tobacco use was 63 per 100,000 men and 25.1 per 100,000 women in the early 1990s. In the mid-1990s, smoking caused far more deaths from COPD than from cardiovascular disease.
China has the world's highest rate of mortality attributable to tobacco use.
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