Stop Smoking Stop Smoking For smokers who have been saying they're planning to quit, NOW is the time to get started. For over 21 years, the American Cancer Society has been telling us to quit smoking and the message has gotten through to hundreds of thousands.
Nonsmokers can help by supporting their friends who are trying to quit smoking.
Tobacco is directly responsible for more than 400 thousand deaths each year in the United States. Five million American children will eventually die of smoking-related disease. Secondhand smoke causes 30 times as many lung cancer deaths as all regulated air pollutants combined. Smoking is responsible for 30 percent of all cancers and 87 percent of all lung cancers. But it's not too late to stop the damage.