ppl pls help
2007-02-06 12:18:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
in america how manY?
2007-02-06 12:18:56 · update #1
Between zero and a lot
2007-02-06 12:21:50 · answer #1 · answered by blindmice6 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's too early for the figures to have been compiled.
It's actually hard to find how many people actually died DIRECTLY from smoking -- since it's such a politicized issue, groups that report (including the CDC) lump all kinds of deaths together and call them "smoking related." If someone dies of a heart attack at 90, and they ever smoked for 1 year, it's attributed to smoking (the evidence for such a death being caused by smoking or even having smoking contribute to it is pretty thin).
The CDC reports that about 438,000 people died in the US in 2005 from "smoking related illnesses." That's both smokers and second-hand smoke. Several organizations (even ones that are trying to fight smoking) call those figures nonsense, and put the real totals at something around:
-- directly smoking related: 120,000
-- second-hand smoke related: less than 500
Why such a wide gap? Numbers are such fun things to play games with, especially if you have a particular political agenda...:)
I suspect the real numbers are somewhere between those two, but where in-between nobody really knows.
2007-02-06 12:27:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
about 400,000 people, 1 in 5 deaths are smoking related
2007-02-06 12:58:52 · answer #3 · answered by xjoizey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
63 people from smoking and ZERO from 2nd hand smoke.
2007-02-06 14:18:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Far less than those who died due to alcohol related injuries.
2007-02-06 17:24:12 · answer #5 · answered by majorcavalry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=35422
2007-02-06 12:22:23 · answer #6 · answered by ahmadsis2003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋