{"id":3345,"date":"2015-03-13T21:12:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3345"},"modified":"2015-03-13T21:12:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:12:40","slug":"study-smoking-deaths-higher-than-figures-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3345","title":{"rendered":"Study: Smoking Deaths Higher Than Figures Reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by John Michaelson\/TNS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; While many of the dangers of smoking have been well known for some time, new research shows that the consequences may be larger and deadlier than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Surgeon General, 21 different causes of death are attributed to smoking, with some 480,000 deaths in the United States each year. A study co-authored by epidemiologist Brian Carter with the American Cancer Society examined the corollary health impacts even further.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe identified at least six new causes of death that we think are probably associated with smoking,\u201d Carter said, \u201cand if you look at these as an aggregate, that would add about 60,000 deaths per year to that 480,000 number.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The additional smoking-related death links include kidney failure, hypertensive heart disease, infections and various respiratory diseases, Carter said. The study looked at data covering about 1 million people from 2000 to 2011 and was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis also found an association between smoking and increased mortality rates for breast and prostate cancer, and Carter said the links to these deaths and the others identified should spur more scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think researchers really need to look at them in a much more focused manner to see exactly how smoking might cause these diseases,\u201d he said. \u201cIf they\u2019re replicated in other more focused studies, I think they need to be incorporated into annual estimates of the number of deaths caused by smoking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Current estimates, which don\u2019t take into account the additional health issues outlined in the study, put the number of smoking-related deaths in Texas at 28,000 per year.<br \/>\nThe study is online at <a href=\"http:\/\/nejm.org\" target=\"_blank\">nejm.org<\/a>. U.S. data is at <a href=\"http:\/\/cdc.gov\" target=\"_blank\">cdc.gov<\/a>. Texas smoking data is at<a href=\"http:\/\/tobaccofreekids.org\" target=\"_blank\"> tobaccofreekids.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3346\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3346\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3346\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/gr-44670-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"It\u2019s already estimated that smoking kills nearly a half-million people in this country each year, including 28,000 in Texas, but new research points to even more associated deaths. Photo: Chris Vaughan\/Flickr.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/gr-44670-1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/gr-44670-1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/gr-44670-1-1-405x228.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/gr-44670-1-1-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It\u2019s already estimated that smoking kills nearly a half-million people in this country each year, including 28,000 in Texas, but new research points to even more associated deaths. Photo: Chris Vaughan\/Flickr.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Michaelson\/TNS AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; While many of the dangers of smoking have been well known for some time, new research shows that the consequences may be larger and deadlier than previously thought. 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