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Cardiovascular disease

Most of the people killed by smoking die of cardiovascular disease and related problems.

Smokers are two to four times more likely than non-smokers to get coronary heart disease (CHD) and are 70% more likely to die from it.

Of the 500,000 CHD deaths each year, about 30-40% are linked to smoking.

In ex-smokers, the excess risk for both stroke and CHD declines to that of never-smokers within 5 to 10 years.

There are about 37,000 CHD deaths each year among non-smokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke. This accounts for about 70% of the 53,000 annual deaths that are attributed to passive smoking.

Smoking reduces the effectiveness of medical treatments for hypertension, as well as that of the beta blocker class of pharmaceuticals.