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Behavioral Factors • Smoking causes about 30 percent of all U.S. deaths from cancer. Avoiding tobacco use is the single most important step Americans can take to reduce the cancer burden in this country. • Obesity and physical inactivity cause about 25 to 30 percent of several of the major cancers in the U.S., including colon, breast, endometrial, kidney, and esophageal cancers. Obesity is estimated to cause 14 percent of cancer deaths in men and 20 percent of cancer deaths in women. • Additional important steps include maintaining a healthy weight, being physically active, eating a moderate-fat diet and enough fruits and vegetables, balancing calories with physical activity, avoiding too much alcohol, and protecting skin from sunlight.
Tobacco Control • Increasing efforts to discourage tobacco use, particularly among the young • Raising federal excise taxes by at least $2 per pack and encouraging states to consider tobacco taxes as a first resort in revenue enhancement • Ensuring that tobacco settlement funds be devoted only to health-related projects, including medical treatment, biomedical research, and tobacco prevention efforts • Comprehensively reforming third-party payment for tobacco cessation efforts • Additional restriction of secondhand smoke in any places where the public may congregate • Supporting necessary research into tobacco addiction, toxicities, and prevention strategies • Enhancing global tobacco control, including a halt of United States government promotion of tobacco products
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