Following the rates of death from respiratory diseases in the decade prior to 2002 and the decade after passage of the Clean Smokestacks Act, we observed a marked reduction in deaths in North Carolina due to asthma, emphysema and pneumonia associated with a reduction in levels of air pollutants
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At a nurse visit one week before their final-quit day, the gradualists had reduced their cigarette consumption, on average, by 48% -- just short of the 50% goal
The problem is that nicotine, a drug found naturally in tobacco, is addictive in fact, the CDC says that nicotine addiction has similar pharmacologic and behavioral characteristics to cocaine and heroin addictions
On top of that, there are also approximately 8,000 deaths due to oral cancer