{"id":636574,"date":"2024-09-29T08:23:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T12:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=636574"},"modified":"2024-09-29T08:23:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T12:23:38","slug":"search-yearly-deaths-from-cigarettes-smoking-versus-alcohol-guns-and-also-obesity-and-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/29\/search-yearly-deaths-from-cigarettes-smoking-versus-alcohol-guns-and-also-obesity-and-heart-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Search yearly deaths from cigarettes, smoking, versus alcohol guns, and also obesity and heart disease."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here are the annual death estimates in the U.S. for various causes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Cigarette smoking<\/strong>: Smoking remains one of the leading preventable causes of death, contributing to about <strong>480,000 deaths annually<\/strong>. This includes deaths from direct smoking and second-hand smoke exposure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/alcohol\/facts-stats\/index.html\">oai_citation:7,Facts About U.S. Deaths from Excessive Alcohol Use | Alcohol Use | CDC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2798004\">oai_citation:6,jamanetwork.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Alcohol<\/strong>: Excessive alcohol use is responsible for around <strong>140,000 deaths per year<\/strong>, including both chronic conditions (like liver disease and cancer) and acute events (such as car accidents and alcohol poisoning) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/alcohol\/facts-stats\/index.html\">oai_citation:5,Facts About U.S. Deaths from Excessive Alcohol Use | Alcohol Use | CDC<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Guns<\/strong>: Gun-related deaths in the U.S. are estimated at about <strong>48,000 per year<\/strong>, with the majority stemming from suicides and homicides <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2798004\">oai_citation:4,jamanetwork.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Obesity<\/strong>: Obesity, along with related factors such as physical inactivity and poor diet, contributes to over <strong>190,000 deaths each year<\/strong>, often through its connection to heart disease, diabetes, and other health complications <a href=\"https:\/\/hms.harvard.edu\/news\/burden-calculated-preventable-causes-death\">oai_citation:3,Burden Calculated for Preventable Causes of Death | Harvard Medical School<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Heart disease<\/strong>: As the leading cause of death in the U.S., heart disease accounts for around <strong>702,000 deaths annually<\/strong>, making up approximately 1 in every 5 deaths <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/heart-disease\/data-research\/facts-stats\/index.html\">oai_citation:2,Heart Disease Facts | Heart Disease | CDC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2798004\">oai_citation:1,jamanetwork.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>These numbers highlight the significant impact of lifestyle-related risk factors on public health in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the annual death estimates in the U.S. for various causes: These numbers highlight the significant impact of lifestyle-related risk factors on public health in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636576,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636574\/revisions\/636576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}