West Virginia and Kentucky, where smoking is a tradition, have the highest death rate due to smoking and related illnesses, new federal study has founded.

Ten states have been identified, which have the highest average annual smoking death rates these include Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma.

Utah and Hawaii were at the bottom, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.

The death rate because of smoking related health problem was 371 and 344 out of 100,000 adults aged above 35, in Kentucky and West Virginia, respectively.

That number was nearly one-and-a-half times higher than the figure provided by the official media i.e. 263 per 100,000. This figure was nearly three folds to than the death rates in Utah, which are 138 per 100,000.

The researchers compile results by calculating the death certificates from 2000 to 2004, focusing on lung cancer and other 18 diseases, which are known to cause by smoking.

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All of us know, smoking is injurious to health. Smoking not only harms lungs but nearly all vital organs of the body. According to estimation, cigarette smoking contributes up to 87 percent of lung cancer deaths. In real smoking facts, it is also responsible for many other types of cancers and health abnormalities such as Respiratory track disease, cardiovascular diseases, stroke, cataracts etc.

Female smokers have an elevated risk of certain complications during pregnancy or having a baby die from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Not only for you, cigarette smoke is also harmful for other people in your surrounding, they breathe in your exhaled smoke, known as secondhand smoke, and can catch up in many of the same problems as smokers do. Quit tobacco smoking can reduce your risk of such deadly diseases. The earlier you quit, the greater the health benefit you shall enjoy.

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