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Psychiatry 51 , 745752 (1988)

Periodontal disease (also known as gum disease) is a common result of smoking cigarettes

The agency states the following: Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths annually in the US, or about 20% of all deaths in the country More than ten times as many US citizens have died prematurely due to cigarette smoking than were killed in all the wars fought by the US About 90% of all lung cancer deaths are related to smoking About 80% of all deaths caused by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are smoking-related Smokers are about 25 times more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smokers Smoking can cause 12 kinds of cancer If no one in the US smoked, the CDC estimates that the number of cancer-related deaths could be cut by about a third

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As the numbers fall, what you are left with is a more hardcore group of smokers whom it is hard to persuade to give up