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How many tobacco-related deaths occur each year in the u.s.?

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Dr. Alan Ali answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Tobacco/Death: More than 480,000 deaths per year, more than half of those are men, & those figures include second hand smoke deaths.

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Answered 4/24/2015

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