Wolpert, Lewis
According to the United States CDC statistics report, the number of deaths caused by smoking in the United States every year: the number of deaths caused by smoking causing heart disease and COPD is almost the same as that caused by lung ...
Objective:Chinese women residing in Asia and Hawaii have low consumption of tobacco but a high incidence of lung cancer. To explore this question further,
Tobacco smoking causes lung cancer1–3, a process that is driven by more than 60 carcinogens in cigarette smoke that directly damage and mutate DNA4,5. The profound effects of tobacco on the genome of lung cancer cells are well-documented6–10, but equiv
Lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and cardiovascular diseases are some of the leading causes of smoking-related deaths. Furthermore, smoking exacerbates health inequalities, with individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds experiencing higher rates of smoking-related diseases and...
Nine out of every 10 deaths from lung cancer are due to smoking, meaning that 90% of lung cancer deaths could be prevented. Smoking causes other lung problems, like emphysema, and increases the risk of contracting pneumonia. How Quitting Improves Your Health ...
Second Hand Smoke Second hand smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals Babies who are around second hand are more likely to die of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) Second Hand Smoke causes low birth weight and lung problems in infants. ...
Smoking causes15% of deathsin adults over 35 in England. More British people under 70 diefrom smoking-related diseasesthan from traffic accidents, breast cancer, AIDS and drug addiction combined. Tobacco kills nearly6 million peopleeach year. That’s 1 person every 6 seconds. ...
Lee et al. BMC Cancer 2012, 12:385 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/12/385 Page 2 of 90 Background It has been known for many years that smoking causes lung cancer. An association was clearly documented in case–control studies conducted in Germany in the 1930s [1], and in ...
2,3 While second primary breast cancer is the most prevalent type of second malignancies among breast cancer survivors, second primary lung cancer (SPLC), the second most common accounting for 19.3% of second malignancies, is the leading cause of mortality in breast cancer patients with multiple ...