Lupus arthritis causes pain, stiffness, swelling, tenderness and warmth in your joints. The joints most often affected are the ones farthest from the middle of the body, such as fingers, wrists, elbows, knees, ankles and toes.
How Many Smokers Are There in the USA? In 2012, an estimated 58.5 million of U.S. adults were current smokers; of these, 41.6 million smoked every day. In the U.S., an estimated 58.5 million people are smokers. That number breaks down to 31.6 million men and 26.9 million women. Not to sound like the Surgeon General, but from a health standpoint, over 424,000 smoke-related deaths occur each year and over $172 billion healthcare dollars are spent.
Smoking leads to disease and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body. 1  More than 16 million Americans are living with a disease caused by smoking. 2  For every person who dies because of smoking, at least 30 people live with a serious smoking-related illness. Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including nearly 42,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. 2  This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day. 3  1. 4  On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.