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Tobacco, the number one preventable cause of the death, claims nearly half a million lives a year in the United States and estimates have shown that 18% of all US deaths could have been avoided if not for tobacco products.[1, 2] Tobacco products are cancer-causing and contribute to nearly every type of cancer

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But the damage is not comparable to smoking, which causes COPD, emphysema, and lung cancer through decades of tar and carcinogen exposure

Cigarette smoking costs an estimated US$240 billion annually in health care costs, which harm not only smokers but also nonsmokers, communities and the economy