### condition | addiction:

Tobacco use
* Most tobacco use begins during childhood or adolescence
  - starts during childhood and adolescence
* Some tobacco use has adverse effects
* affects all individuals and societies.
* can also result in short-term, foul mouth odors.
* can cause infants to be born too small, or hinder intellectual or emotional development
  - serious illness and even death
  - decrease the absorption of vanadium
  - disturb sleep
  - increase an individual's risk for developing cancer
* can, for example, influence the impact of medication taken for psychiatric syndromes.
* causes cancer and any other number of diseases
  - as well as respiratory and heart disease
  - in many people as well as respiratory and heart disease
  - devastating disease and premature death in every population in the United States
  - emphysema, cancers and chronic pulmonary diseases
  - lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and impotence
  - many other diseases
* causes more cancer here and in the rest of the world than anything else
  - deaths in the U.S. than any other preventable risk factor
  - premature deaths in the United States than any other preventable risk
  - nearly all cases of lung cancer and more than one-third of all cancer deaths
  - profound health and economic losses
  - serious health problems and early death
  - significant morbidity and mortality
  - stained teeth, bad breath, and foul-smelling hair and clothes
* continues to be the leading lifestyle-related cause of death in Canada
  - predict abuse of other substances
* creates enormous health problems in our communities.
* culprit for many forms of cancer and for greater heart disease risk.
* decreases the absorption of pantothenic acid.
* disorder which can be remedied through medical attention.
* drains resources from poor countries.
* has a damaging effect on women's reproductive health.
* increases the risk for cancer of the cervix as well
  - heart disease and heart attack
* increases the risk of gum disease
  - infertility, stillbirth and low birth weight
* involves physiological, psychological, behavioral and genetic factors.
  - international problem
  - another serious health problem for adolescents
  - associated with increase in fetal loss, lower birth weight and premature birth
  - both about the addiction to nicotine and the habit or behavior addiction
  - considered, by many, to be a legal form of substance abuse
  - detrimental to health with significant wider social costs
  - discouraged in headache sufferers
  - familiar behavior that still occurs in many public areas
  - highly addictive
  - known to cause lung cancer in humans, and major risk factor for heart disease
* is linked to poorer academic performance
  - with marijuana use
* is more prevalent among the poor and amplifies other health problems
  - in socioeconomically disadvantaged and underserved groups
* is one of the greatest burdens to the health and well-being of women around the world
  - health risks facing our patients
* is one of the leading causes of many diseases, especially cardiovascular disease
  - of preventable disease and death in New York City
  - most common compromising factors in patients treated in the United States
  - recognised as a major preventable cause of disease, disability and death
* is responsible for approximately one-third of all cancers
  - nearly one in five deaths in the United States
  - one of every five deaths
  - the biggest preventable cause of premature death in the United States
* is the largest and most preventable cause of mortality in the United States
  - public health threat to the Western Pacific region
* is the leading cause of cancer in Alberta and the Northwest Territories
  - death in Alaska
  - heart disease, emphysema and stroke in the United States
* is the leading cause of premature death in Canada and in the world
* is the leading cause of preventable death and disease
  - death in Colorado and the United States
  - death in the world today
  - disease in the United States
* is the leading preventable cause of death in Oklahoma
  - death in Ontario
  - diseases and deaths in the United States
  - major cause of lung cancer
* is the major preventable cause of disease in the United States
  - disease worldwide
* is the most common form of compromise and the easiest to change
  - important single preventable cause of death and disease in our society
* is the most preventable cause of cancer
  - death and disease in the United States
* is the nation's leading cause of preventable death and disease
* is the number one cause of impotence
  - premature morbidity and mortality in our society
  - public health problem in the nation and in Colorado
* is the only behavior that kills more people
  - factor that contributes to more preventable deaths each year
  - possession or ingestion of tobacco in any form, regardless of the quantity
* is the single largest cause of premature death and preventable ill-health in Wales
  - leading preventable cause of death in the United States
  - most important cause of cancer in the United States
* is the single most important preventable cause of human disease and death
  - risk to human health
* is the single most preventable cause of cancer
  - of death and disease in New Jersey
  - of death and disease in the state
  - of death in the United States and in North Dakota
  - single-leading preventable cause of death in the United States
  - to blame for nearly one in three cancer deaths in the United States every year
* kills more people everyday than three jumbo jet crashes.
* leading cause of cancer and of death from cancer.
* major preventable cause of cancer.
* pediatric epidemic Tobacco use pediatric epidemic
  - epidemic, as well
  - problem worldwide
* reduces the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to gingival tissue.
* remains the leading avoidable cause of illness and premature death in Alberta
* remains the single largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States
  - most preventable cause of death in the United States
* scourge, a major cause of cancer, heart disease, and lung disease.
* seems to weaken the bones and slow production of new bone cells.
* significant public health problem in the United States and many other countries.
* takes an enormous, deadly toll each year.