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Growing Up Tobacco Free: Preventing Nicotine Addiction in Children and Youths
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Use of tobacco products is the nation's deadliest addiction. Smoking cigarettes is the leading cause of avoidable death in the United States. More than 400,000 people die prematurely each year from diseases attributable to tobacco use.1 The toll of deaths attributable to tobacco use is greater than the combined toll of deaths from AIDS, car accidents, alcohol, suicides, homicides, fires, and illegal drugs (figure 1-1). Smoking is the main cause of 87% of deaths from lung cancer, 30% of all cancer deaths, 82% of deaths from pulmonary disease, and 21% of deaths from chronic heart disease.2 Use of smokeless tobacco* is a cause of oral cancer.3 In a study of women who did not smoke but did use snuff chronically, the risk for oral cancers was 50 times greater than for nonusers.4
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1994
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