A recent JAMA Internal Medicine study found 45 percent of at least 345,962 cancer deaths in the United States each year were from lung, bronchus and trachea cancer as a result of cigarette smoking, reports The Los Angeles Times.
Here are five more notes on smoking deaths in the country, according to the report:
1. 15 percent of deaths were the result of colorectal cancer, 11 percent to pancreatic cancers and 6 percent to liver cancer.
2. Researchers found 48.5 percent of all deaths can be attributed to cigarette smoking.
3. Lung cancer, at 83 percent in men and 76 percent in women, was the highest link to smoking cigarettes.
4. From 2000 to 2012, smoking prevalence decreased from 23.2 percent to 18.1 percent, according to the study.
5. 93 percent of larynx cancer deaths in women, and 72 percent in men, are a result of smoking.
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