Health Effects Infographics

Risks From Smoking

Risks from Smoking

Smoking Can Damage Every Part of the Body

Cancers

• Oropharynx
• Larynx
• Esophagus
• Trachea, bronchus, and lung
• Acute myeloid leukemia
• Stomach
• Liver
• Pancreas
• Kidney and ureter
• Cervix
• Bladder
• Colorectal

Chronic Diseases

• Stroke
• Blindness, cataracts, age-related macular degeneration*
• Congenital defects-maternal smoking: orofacial clefts*
• Periodontitis
• Aortic aneurysm, early abdominal aortic atherosclerosis in young adults
• Coronary heart disease
• Pneumonia
• Atherosclerotic peripheral vascular disease
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, tuberculosis,* asthma, and other respiratory effects
• Diabetes*
• Reproductive effects in women (including reduced fertility)
• Hip fractures
• Ectopic pregnancy*
• Male sexual function-erectile dysfunction*
• Rheumatoid arthritis*
• Immune function*
• Overall diminished health

Each condition presented in bold text and followed by an asterisk (*) is a new disease causally linked to smoking in the 2014 Surgeon General’s Report, The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress.

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Smokeless Tobacco Fact

Fact: At least 28 cancer-causing chemicals have been found in smokeless tobacco.

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Smokeless Tobacco Can Cause…

Smokeless tobacco, like chew and dip, can cause cancer of the mouth, esophagus, and pancreas.

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Women and Smoking

• Equality in smoking and disease, nobody wins!
• Nearly 20 million women and girls in the United States smoke cigarettes.
• During the sixties and seventies tobacco companies targeted women.
• Women who smoke are more likely to die from C.O.P.D. than men who smoke.
• Women over age 35 who smoke have a slightly higher risk of dying from heart disease than men who smoke.
• More than 200,000 women die every year from smoking-related disease compared with 270,000 men who die from smoking-related disease every year.

Source: The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014.

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Annual Deaths Attributable to Cigarette Smoking—United States, 2005–2009

* Average annual number of deaths 2005–2009
Source: At A Glance 2016 Tobacco Use: Extinguishing the Epidemic [PDF–342 KB].

The infographic above shows the estimated average annual number of smoking-attributable deaths in the United States during 2005 through 2009 by specific causes, as follows:

• Total: more than 480,000 deaths
• Lung cancer: 137,989 deaths
• Other cancers: 36,000 deaths
• Heart Disease: 158,750 deaths
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: 100,600 deaths
• Stroke: 15,300 deaths
• Other diagnoses: 31,681 deaths

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Poison Center Calls Involving E-Cigarettes

The number of poison center calls involving e-cigarettes went from one call per month in September 2010 to 215 calls per month in February 2014.

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