The CDC reports that smoking triples the risk of dying from heart disease among middle-aged men and women. The CDC also said that men who smoke increase their risk of dying from lung cancer by more than 22 times and from bronchitis and emphysema by nearly 10 times. Women who smoke increase their risk of dying from lung cancer by nearly 12 times and the risk of dying from bronchitis and emphysema by more than 10 fold. The CDC asserts that, on average, cigarette smokers die nearly seven years earlier than nonsmokers. Each year exposure to secondhand smoke is believed to cause an estimated 3,000 deaths from lung cancer among American adults.
Studies also link secondhand smoke with heart disease.
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