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Emphysema contributed to the deaths of poet T.S. Eliot, artist Norman Rockwell, TV personality Johnny Carson, and composer Leonard Bernstein. Like many victims of emphysema, they had one major thing in common: smoking.
The zenith of America’s nicotine habit was 1965 when 1 in 2.39 adults smoked—that’s 1 in 2.97 women and 1 in 1.95 (a full 51% of) men. Since that time, smoking has been on the decline, but behind every quitter is a story
Flu season is especially virulent this year, and another potentially deadly illness often comes with flu: community-acquired pneumonia. The flu and pneumonia together have been the 7th leading cause of death in the United States for the last decade.
The odds an adult with a family income of $100,000 or more will suffer from hay fever in a year are 1 in 9.7, or a little over 10%. The odds an adult with a family income below the poverty line will experience the allergy are almost half of that—1 in 17.59.
Hear that wheezing sound all around? More people have asthma than ever before—and kids from lower-income families who grow up in urban areas may have the highest rates of all. More than 16.2 million Americans (including 6.7 million children) have the chronic respiratory disease, according to a report last year from the Centers for Disease Control.
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