Table 1.

Number of deaths (N) and person-years (PY) at risk by cause of death for the total population, white population, and populations of color, United States, 1960–2006.

Cause of death	Total population		White population		Populations of color
	PY	N	PY	N	PY	N
All-cause	11,077,768,226	97,573,286	9,384,715,232	84,802,395	1,693,052,994	12,770,891
Medically preventable*		14,056,313		12,039,994		2,016,319
Not smoking related**		41,156,141		34,687,362		6,468,779

^*Medically preventable mortality = deaths due to causes preventable by medical intervention available since at least 1960 (tuberculosis, cervical cancer, Hodgkin’s disease, chronic rheumatic heart disease, hypertensive heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, acute upper respiratory disease, bronchitis, pneumonia, influenza, asthma, appendicitis, inguinal (abdominal) hernia, and cholecystitis)^11–13

^**Not smoking related = all causes of death excluding the causes of death listed as at least partially attributable to smoking in the 2004 US Surgeon’s General Report Health Consequences of Smoking and in the updated list published by the CDC in 2008,¹⁰ consisting of: Malignant neoplasm (lip, oral cavity, pharynx; esophagus; stomach; pancreas; trachea/lung/bronchus; cervix uteri; kidney and renal pelvis; urinary bladder; acute myeloid leukemia); Cardiovascular disease (ischemic heart disease; other heart disease; cerebrovascular disease; arteriosclerosis; aortic aneurysm; other circulatory disease); Respiratory disease (pneumonia, influenza; bronchitis, emphysema; chronic airways obstruction); Perinatal conditions (short gestation/low birth weight; respiratory distress syndrome; other respiratory (newborn); Sudden Infant Death Syndrome); Residential Fire; Secondhand smoke (lung cancer; ischemic heart disease.