Smoking is the single most preventable risk
factor for fatal illnesses in the United States. Indeed,
cigarette smoking accounts for accounts for more deaths than all
other drugs, car accidents, suicides, homicides, and
fires combined. Further, nonsmokers who inhale
smoke from other people’s cigarettes face an elevated face an elevated
risk risk for lung cancer and other illnesses related to the
lungs, a fact that has given rise to given rise to a nonsmokers’
rights movement in the United States.