Smoking harms the heart, lungs and blood vessels and makes it hard to breathe. It also increases your chances of getting pneumonia or other chronic lung diseases like emphysema and bronchitis.

Smoking has been linked to lung cancer, heart disease and stroke and can cause premature death.

Quitting smoking will improve your health and may reduce your chance of getting pneumonia again.

This measure reports what percent of adult pneumonia patients are given advice to quit smoking before they leave the hospital.

A high score is better than a low one.

The chart above shows how Cedars-Sinai's performance on this measure compared with the top 10% of hospitals in the United States, the national average for hospitals, the top 10% of hospitals in California and the California average. These data reflect care given to patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from April through June 2007. The national and California data reflect care given to patients from April 2006 through March 2007.