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Fast Facts:
- Cigarette smoking causes 87% of lung cancer deaths
- Secondhand smoke is responsible for an estimated 3,000 lung cancer deaths of nonsmokers each year
- Tobacco use costs roughly $75 billion per year in direct health care costs
- Women who smoke and also take oral contraceptives are more prone to cardiovascular disease than are other smokers
- In 1973, commercial airlines began offering non-smoking sections on flights
- In 1988, a congressionally mandated smoking ban took effect on domestic airline flights of 2 hours or less
- California became the first state to ban smoking in bars in 1998
- Smoking cessation has major and immediate health benefits
