Teen tobacco use has long been linked to lifelong dependency, with 9 out of 10 cigarette users claiming they picked up their first cigarette before the age of 18. The introduction of e-cigarettes has ...

Smoking and tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, with few groups as heavily ...

The American Lung Association's "State of Lung Cancer" report explores how lung cancer varies by state. It does this by analyzing key lung cancer indicators including incidence, survival, stage at ...

The American Lung Association State of the Air report issues an annual report card for all cities and counties where air quality data is collected on ozone and particle pollution.

RSV is a common cause of lower respiratory tract infections like pneumonia. RSV can be dangerous for certain high-risk adults. Up to 160,000 older adults are hospitalized in the United States each ...

Did You Know? Nearly four in ten people in the U.S. live where the air they breathe earned an F in "State of the Air" 2024. More than 131 million people live in counties that received an F for either ...

The American Lung Association calls for the following actions to be taken by Rhode Island's elected officials to reduce tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke: Ensure all Rhode Islanders have a ...

The American Lung Association calls for the following actions to be taken by New York's elected officials to reduce tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke: Preserve funding for the New York ...

The American Lung Association's "State of Lung Cancer" report explores how lung cancer varies by state. It does this by analyzing key lung cancer indicators including incidence, survival, stage at ...

Select on a city name to view the rankings for your city, a chart of the trends for ozone and year-round particle levels over time, and information about how many residents are in each of the groups ...

Ozone and short-term particle pollution. The data on air quality throughout the United States were obtained from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Quality System (AQS). The American Lung ...

Exposure to unhealthy levels of ozone air pollution continues to make breathing difficult for more Americans across the country than any other single pollutant. In the years 2020, 2021, and 2022, some ...