Smoking-related diseases claim an estimated 430,700 American lives each year, including those affected indirectly, such as babies born prematurely due to prenatal maternal smoking and some of the victims of "secondhand" exposure to tobacco's carcinogens. Smoking costs the United States approximately $97.2 billion each year in health-care costs and lost productivity. Smoking is directly responsible for 87 percent of lung cancer cases and causes most cases of emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Its been proven in over 40,000 studies that cigarette smoking causes diseases and death. More Americans die from smoking-related diseases than from AIDS, drug abuse, car accidents and murder combined each year. 4 notebox_wide float_right 2 2008-04-07T12:29:22-04:00 Find information & resource on how tobacco affect your health, as well as the programs we offer. 55 0 tobacco 1 0 2008-06-12T21:47:42-04:00