The $54m campaign features graphic footage of ex-smokers suffering from cancer, amputations, paralysis and other conditions linked to smoking.
Sudden infant death syndrome, delayed mental development in childhood, and spontaneous abortion also have been linked to smoking.
The revenue will be used to provide health care for low-income people, to pay for emergency medical services and to finance research on diseases linked to smoking.
The drop was particularly steep among young adults, which suggested, experts said, that a new generation was not picking up the habit, and might avoid the heavy toll of lung cancer, heart disease and other health problems linked to smoking.
The result of deeper inhalation, Dr. Thun's report suggests, has been an increased risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or C.O.P.D., and a shift in the kind of lung cancer linked to smoking.
Lung cancer - strongly linked to smoking.
According to the figures spanning five years from 2007 to 2011, more than 300,000 cases of cancer recorded were linked to smoking.
In a landmark case, the state health insurer there has filed a lawsuit against a number of domestic and foreign tobacco companies seeking to recoup the cost of treating people with diseases linked to smoking.
Based on smoking habits in the population and the proportion of cancer cases attributable to smoking, the researchers estimated that 125,799 lung, bronchus and trachea cancer deaths, representing 80percentt of the total, were linked to smoking.
In "Tips from Former Smokers," the CDC dramatizes life-saving medications and surgical measures as punishments for conditions like colon cancer, Macular Degeneration, throat cancer, and premature birth, which are all linked to smoking.
The upregulation of alkyl-DHAP seen in our metabolite profiles and independent in a gene expression study further corroborates its role in defects linked to smoking.
