07/15/2017
Question: which addiction would you rather quit?
1. Smoking
2. Sugar and sweeteners
I posted the stats below for deaths by diabetes and lung cancer.
In 2012, the most recent year for which we have statistics available, 157,423 people -- 86,689 men and 70,734 women -- died from lung cancer in the U.S. Since smoking is responsible for 85 percent of lung cancers, statistically lung cancer caused by smoking is responsible for nearly 135,000 U.S. deaths per year.Nov 14, 2016
Deaths: Diabetes remains the 7th leading cause of death in the United States in 2010, with 69,071 death certificates listing it as the underlying cause of death, and a total of 234,051 death certificates listing diabetes as an underlying or contributing cause of death.
Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day. On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.
Source www.fda.gov