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Passive smoking is linked with lung cancer, heart disease and sudden infant death syndrome.
About 48 million American adults smoke cigarettes and it is estimated that half of those who continue smoking will die from a smoking-related disease. Tobacco use is responsible for approximately 430,000 deaths each year, one of every five. The twentieth century has witnessed the rise, and fall of cigarette smoking. Annual cigarette consumption increased from 54 in 1900 to 4345 in 1963, and then decreased to 2261 in 1998. It is estimated that during the 1964-1992 period approximately 1.6 million deaths caused by smoking were prevented.