Smoking and Chewing Tobacco is Responsible for Different Types of Cancer




smoking and cancer According to numerous scientific research, tobacco is largely responsible for a worldwide current epidemic of many forms of cancer - a sobering reminder on the occasion of World Cancer Awareness Day. The incidence of tobacco-related forms of cancer around the world constitutes about 48 percent in men and 20 percent in women. It is estimated that about 40% of cancer deaths among middle-aged people are caused by consumption of tobacco.

The key impact of smoking is observed on cancer of lung, oesophagus, larynx, bladder, and pancreas, while chewing tobacco is directly correlated with many cases of oral and pharyngeal cancer. When we choose not to smoke, we cut our risks of getting these and some other forms of cancer up to 30 percent!

Lung cancer is the most aggressive, widely-spread, and deadly form of cigarette-induced diseases. Statistics show that in the modern world lung cancer is responsible for more cases of mortality among women than breast cancer and for more deaths among men than prostate cancer. The average estimated increase in cigarette-related deaths from lung cancer is about 12 percent by the year 2010, in comparison with the year 2005. This statistics are especially sad since lung cancer can be easily prevented by a life-long abstinence form smoking tobacco, since about eight out of every 10 new cases of it are directly cased by tobacco consumption.

The correlation between smoking and breast cancer is less obvious, but according to the study conducted in Denmark by the World Health Organization Tobacco Free Initiative, women who had smoked for more than 30 years were 60 percent more susceptible to getting breast cancer.

According to the American Cancer Society, tobacco consumption is responsible for about 430,000 deaths a year…

John Burke

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Posted on November 11, 2007 
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