Every year, close to 350,000 Americans die of lung disease.
Lung disease is America's number three killer, responsible for one in seven deaths.
The American Lung Association has selected a variety of tables, graphs and figures to illustrate these facts. Lung disease is not only a killer, most lung disease is chronic. More than 30 million Americans are now living with chronic lung disease. The following are trend reports depicting available prevalence, incidence, hospitalization and mortality data for lung disease and cigarette smoking.