“More than 16 million Americans live with a disease caused by smoking.

• Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of disease, death, and disability in the United States.1

• Cigarette smoking and secondhand smoke exposure cause more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. This is nearly one in five deaths.”

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Cigarette Smoking | Smoking and Tobacco Use | CDC)