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By the numbers

135.8 per 100,000 people: Age-adjusted annual lung cancer rate for Fort Wayne ZIP code 46803 from 1995 to 2005

80.5 per 100,000 people: Age-adjusted annual lung cancer incidence rate in Indiana from 2000 to 2004

60.3 per 100,000 people: National age-adjusted annual lung cancer incidence rate from 2000 to 2004

213,380 new cases of lung and bronchus (or bronchial) cancer estimated nationwide in 2007

160,390:Estimated number of Americans who died last year from lung cancer; the No. 1 cancer killer accounted for about 29 percent of all cancer deaths in the U.S.

3,954:Average number of Hoosiers killed by lung cancer per year from 2000 to 2003

5,210:Estimated new lung and bronchus cancer cases in the state in 2007

87 percent of lung cancers are caused by smoking

25 percent of Hoosier adults smoke

37 percent of Indiana high school students smoke

$16.2 million: Funding for to state tobacco cessation agency in 2007; amount up about $5 million from 2006 but about $20 million short of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.

Sources: Indiana Cancer Facts & Figures 2006, Cancer Facts and Figures 2007, Indiana State Department of Health, American Cancer Society, Indiana Cancer Consortium, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Cancer Institute.