Smoking-related diseases claim an estimated 430,700 American lives each year. This also includes those affected indirectly, such as babies born prematurely due to prenatal maternal smoking and some of the victims of "secondhand" exposure to tobacco's carcinogens. Smoking kills more people each year than AIDS, alcohol, drug abuse, car crashes, murders, suicides, and fires combined. The cigarette industry had steadfastly denied for decades that smoking causes cancer and other diseases, and that it ...MORE