Smoking - The Single Biggest Cause Of Lung Cancer

What The Tobacco Industry Doesn't Want You To Know

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Smoking and lung cancer are virtually bedmates

Over the years, researchers have worked to uncover many of the risk factors associated with lung cancer. It has been conclusively shown that smoking is one of the biggest causes of lung cancer worldwide.

Apart from smoking, the probability of developing lung cancer can be affected by the following factors.

Asbestos exposure either at work or at home Exposure to radon (a naturally occurring radioactive,

colorless, odourless gas present in the some places) Breathing in polluted air (the presence of fine particulate

matter in the air increases chances of getting the disease) Exposure to certain types of diseases The individual's age Having a family history of cancer - this ups the risks of

developing cancer of the lung.

It is estimated that as much as eighty-five percent of all lung cancers are caused by smoking or by breathing in the side-stream smoke (also known as second-hand smoke). The latter form of exposure to tobacco smoke is called passive smoking.

What makes the situation worse is that often, lung cancer symptoms are not evident until the cancer has progressed very far.

This article looks at smoking and the implications for lung cancer.

Did you know that cigarette smoke contains a cocktail of as many as 4000 different chemicals? It's true.

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And many of these chemicals are known cancer-causing agents - carcinogens, as they are formally known. Smoking exposes you to multiple risks - not only can you possibly get lung cancer, you may also end up with several other life-threatening health problems including heart diseases.

Lung cancer is much more common in smokers than non-smokers.

Not only do smokers damage their own bodies, they also threaten those around them. Passive smoking - being exposed to tobacco smoke from other people who smoke - is a serious affair.

It is a shocking fact that passive smokers are probably more likely than smokers to develop lung cancer and other diseases, because they inhale smoke that is not filtered!

If you smoke, your chances of developing this dreaded cancer depends on various factors like your age when you first began the smoking habit (younger is obviously worse), the total number of years you smoked, the number of smokes per day and so on.

There's been a lot of talk of how “low nicotine” / “low tar” cigarettes can cut down on various health risks. Unfortunately, the evidence suggests that such products have little or no benefits over regular cigarettes. In other words, stay clear of ALL cigarettes, cigars and everything else that has tobacco in it.

This is of course, directly contradictory to the advertising many companies do in their efforts to boost their profits.

The truth about tobacco has been known for decades now. Since the early 1970s, cigarette packaging has carried statutory warnings about the risks of cancer and other diseases.

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However, such warnings do not seem to have had a perceptible effect on the demand / consumption of tobacco products. People, it appears, are easily lured into the killer web of tobacco smoke.

Smoke from tobacco (via cigarettes, cigars, pipes, hookahs, etc.) and from other substances like marijuana contain particles that irritate lung tissues. Over time, this results in permanent damage to the sensitive tissues.

And as mentioned earlier, cigarette smoke has mega-doses carcinogens. It's not just the lungs that can go down with cancer - any human tissue that is exposed to these carcinogens can become cancerous.

That includes the mouth, throat and other parts of the body.

Vested interests spread lies about how pipes and cigars are much safer than cigarettes. But the truth is that those who smoke pipes or cigars have a vastly increased probability of developing lung cancer (and other diseases) as compared to those who do not smoke at all.

Here's an interesting fact - in some countries, if a smoker has caused cancer in non-smokers by exposing the latter to second-hand smoke, the smokers are deemed to have committed homicide. And they are subject to legal penalties. Maybe more countries should adopt this approach.

All said and done, prevention is far better than cure when it comes to lung cancer.

There is only one solution to this problem - stop smoking and do not allow yourself to be exposed to second-hand smoke either. Anything short of that amounts to slow suicide.

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Smoking - The Single Biggest Cause Of Lung Cancer

What The Tobacco Industry Doesn't Want You To Know

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