Psychologist Gerald A. Solfanelli |

"More deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by all deaths from HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides and murders combined." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (February, 2004) "The CDC estimated that adult male smokers lost an average of 13.2 years of life and female smokers lost 14.5 years of life because of smoking." American Cancer Society

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"Smokers have a 50% chance of dying from a smoking-related disease such as
lung cancer, a heart attack, or emphysema." American Psychiatric Association "A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer." Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland
Former Director-General of the World Health Organization "Cigarette smoking is the single most preventable cause of premature death in the United States." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (September, 2006)

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