The nurse is giving a health promotion class to adolescents. In counseling an adolescent about lifestyle choices, the nurse discusses the fact that the most preventable cause of adult death in the United States is:
1. Alcohol use.
2. Obesity.
3. Tobacco use.
4. Cocaine use.
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Rationale:
Although all of these factors are preventable causes of mortality in the United States, tobacco use accounts for 430,000 deaths annually, and is the most preventable cause of adult death.
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