Table 3. Proportion of deaths by cause among current smokers that would be avoided at non-smoking death rates, by sex and age.
| Among smokers, % avoided at non-smoking death rates | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disease/sex | Males | Females | |||||||
| Age groups | 35–54 | 55–64 | 65–74 | ≥75 | 35–54 | 55–64 | 65–74 | ≥75 | |
| Lung cancer | 93% | 95% | 96% | 96% | 92% | 95% | 96% | 96% | |
| Other cancers | 43% | 46% | 57% | 54% | 22% | 52% | 51% | 48% | |
| Coronary heart disease | 74% | 67% | 64% | 49% | 80% | 69% | 70% | 56% | |
| Cerebrovascular disease | 54% | 32% | 56% | 41% | |||||
| Aortic aneurysm, other arterial and atherosclerosis | 86% | 80% | 85% | 83% | |||||
| Diabetes mellitus | 33% | 9% | 35% | 9% | |||||
| All vascular at ages 35–64 | 58% | 60% | 59% | 49% | |||||
| Influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis | 61% | 38% | 43% | 51% | |||||
| Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | 97% | 96% | 97% | 95% | |||||
| All respiratory at ages 35–64 | 78% | 93% | 84% | 89% | |||||
| All causes | 61% | 66% | 67% | 58% | 44% | 62% | 65% | 60% | |
Notes: Author calculations. The avoidable proportion for each condition and sex is calculated as (RRc-1)/RRc, where RRc refers to the smoker: non-smoker relative risks (RR) for current smoking in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2014) (Appendix 1).