According to the American Cancer Society, one in five Americans die each year from tobacco use and the annual death toll from tobacco-related causes is estimated at 419,000.
Smoking also causes harm to nonsmokers.
According to the ACS, annually 53,000 nonsmoking adults die as a result of breathing cigarette smoke. However, for more than two decades, the ACS has been active in campaigning to reduce the number of cancer deaths in this country due to smoking. It will hold its Great American Smokeout on Thursday. All events of the Great American Smokeout are free and open to the public. The aim of the smokeout also is to promote actions against tobacco use through the year.