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Annual Deaths Attributable to Cigarette Smoking—United States,
1997–2001
Source: CDC SAMMEC,
MMWR 2005; Vol. 54, No. 25:625–8.
The pie chart above shows the estimated annual number of smoking-attributable deaths in the United States
during 1997 through 2001 by specific causes, as follows:
- Lung cancer: 123,800 deaths
- Other cancers: 34,700 deaths
- Chronic lung disease: 90,600 deaths
- Coronary heart disease: 86,800 deaths
- Stroke: 17,400 deaths
- Other diagnoses: 84,600 deaths
Page last reviewed 02/28/2007
Page last modified 02/28/2007
![Pie chart [see text description below.]](00_images/annual_deaths_2006_chart.jpg)