Smoking still causes large proportion of cancer deaths in the United States

Tuesday, December 9, 2014 - 16:31 in Health & Medicine

Despite significant drops in smoking rates, cigarettes continue to cause about three in ten cancer deaths in the United States, a study has found. "Reducing smoking prevalence as rapidly as possible should be a top priority for US public health efforts to prevent future cancer deaths," the authors say.

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