Cigarettes & Cancer Deaths

Cancer deaths that are attributable to cigarette smoking varies across the United State but has reached nearly 40% of the cancer deaths in men that were connected to smoking, according to an article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

Currently there are around 40 million current adult cigarette smokers in the U.S. and this still remains the largest contributor to cancer and other diseases. An estimated 28.7% of all cancer deaths in 2010 were attributed to cigarette smoking.

Author Joannie Lortet-Tieulent, M.Sc., of the American Cancer Society of Atlanta and her coauthors, have …read more