Home | FAQs | About Us | Partner With Us | In the News | Related Links | Contact Us | Campaign Materials

---

Email Updates

Print Page

Email Page

Send an E-Card

Link to Us

Widgets

1/1/2009

Shasta County, California health officials are bemoaning their ranking of having the second highest mortality rate of California's 58 counties, especially since most of the deaths were preventable. Tobacco use is the number one cause of preventable, premature death in Shasta County. The county has the fifth worst death rate in California for lung cancer and chronic respiratory diseases.