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Three important contribu- tors are physical inactivity, high-fat diet, and smoking. * Cigarettes kill 419,000 Ameri- * Smoking reduces the amount of smoke. WHO currently estimates cans each year - more than alco- oxygen to the heart muscle while that there are 1.1billion worldwide hol, heroin, crack, automobile and simultaneously making the heart who are cigarette smokers. airplane accidents, murders, suicides, beat faster (increasing its demand * In the 25 years between 1955 and AIDS combined. Most of these for oxygen). and 1990, the percentage of deaths result not from cancer, but * Smoking is the main cause of American adults who smoke has from heart attacks. chronic lung diseases. SEECOPD declined from 42.3% to 25.4%. * Cigarette smoking is the number BELOW. * Over the past decade, there has one cause of cancer death in men. * Many studies show that second- been no significant decrease in Lung cancer surpassed breast cancer hand smoke can have harmful smoking rates among youths in the as the leading cause of cancer deaths effects on non-smokers. Sidestream U.S., but higher tobacco taxes in among women in 1987. smoke - smoke in the air from California have led to a drop in ciga- * Nicotine in smoke increases blood burning tobacco - actually has higher rette smoking; and in Canada, high- pressure, heart rate, the amount concentration of some harmful com- er taxes have led to a decrease in of blood pumped by the heart, and pounds than mainstream smoke. smoking of almost 2/3rds since 1980. the blood flow in the arteries of * Smoking costs the U.S. $65 the heart. billion per year in health-care costs * When cigarette smoking ceases 6 Smoking is a major risk factor of and lost productivity - that's $262 the likelihood of developing cardio- peripheral vascular disease - the per American per year. vascular disease declines rapidly. narrowing of the blood vessels that Risk is reduced within one year, and * In the U.S., 1.5 million people after ten years the risk is essentially carry blood to the leg and arm quit smoking each year, but as many muscles. that of a nonsmoker for a person as 50 million adults continue to who smoked a pack a day or less. \ STOPSMOKING RESOURCES Calling It Quits, Smoking and Heart Disease, How to Avoid Weight Gain when Quitting Smoking, Cigarette Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease. Free from the American Heart Association, National Center, 7272 Greenville Ave., Dallas, TX 75231-4596, 800/242-8721, or your local American Heart Association. Freedom From Smokingo For You and Your Family; Freedom From Smokingo For You and Your Baby; A Lifetime of Freedom From Smokingo, and In Controlo: A Video Freedom From Smokingo Program. For price information contact your local American Lung Association. If You Smoke ... Stop for Good. Free from the American Medical Association, 515 N. State St., Chicago, IL 60610, or its co-sponsor Marion-Merrell Dow, Inc., 800/362-7466. -- RESOURCESFOR CoPD Pulmonary Education and Research Foundation (PERF), P.O. Box 1133, Lomita, CA 90717-5133 (310/539-2295) has published three booklets on Essentials of Pulmonary Rehabilitation. Part I introduces the basic methods of pulmonary rehabilitation and methods of treatment. Part II focuses on medications and quality of life issues. Part I11 specifically addresses the future for patients with chronic lung disease. Single copies of each are available without charge. PERF also has produced two videos on Pulmonary Rehabilitation; one for physicians and one for lay people. Single copies of each are available without charge. Questions about lung disease? Call LUNG LINE", 800/222-LUNG. Callers within Colorado dial 303/355-LUNG. LUNG LINE" nurses are available Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Rocky Mountain time. LUNG FACTSW, 800/552-LUNG, is an automated information service available i 24 hours a day, seven days a week. LUNG LINE' and LUNG FACTSW are services of National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver, CO. To receive a patient education materials list call 800/423-8891, ext. 1079 or 7700. 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