442,398 U.S. Deaths Attributable Each Year to Cigarette Smoking*

Lung Cancer - 124,813 deaths
Coronary Heart Disease - 81,976 deaths
Chronic Lung Disease - 82,431 deaths
Other diagnoses - 104, 785 deaths
Stroke - 17,445 deaths
Other cancers - 30,948 deaths

*Average annual number of deaths, 1995-1999.
Source: CDC SAMMEC, MMWR 2002; Vol. 51, No. 14:300-3.

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