No Decline Seen in US Smoking-Related Deaths

November 19th, 2008 by admin

Between 2000 and 2004, at least 443,000 Americans died prematurely each year from cigarette smoking and exposure to tobacco smoke compared to 438,000 such deaths that occurred each year between 1997 and 2001, according to a report in the Nov. 14 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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