Different Cancers Related to Smoking Cigarettes
☠1. Mouth and Throat - Smoking increases the risk of throat cancer by exposing the larynx to these carcinogenic chemicals
☠2. Voice box - Alcohol and tobacco are the 2 main things that can increase your risk of developing laryngeal cancer.
☠3. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) - a cancer of the blood and bone marrow.
☠4. Renal Penvis (Center Part of Liver) - Smoking tobacco increases your risk for renal pelvis or ureter cancer. After you quit smoking, the risk decreases over time.
☠5. Urinary Bladder - smokers are nearly three times as likely to get bladder cancer as non-smokers. In fact, smoking causes about half of all cases of bladder cancer in men and women.
☠6. Stomach - Gastric cancer (GC) is the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Smoking tobacco is the most important behavioral risk factor for GC.
☠7. Colon and Rectal - studies have reported a 20% to 60% increase in risk of colorectal cancer associated with active smoking.
Direct Effects
☠1. Smoking causes: cancer,
☠2. Heart disease,
☠3. Stroke,
☠4. Lung diseases,
☠5. Diabetes,
☠6. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),
☠7. Includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
☠8. Smoking also increases risk for tuberculosis,
☠9. Certain eye diseases,
☠10. Problems of the immune system, including rheumatoid arthritis
Fun Facts
☠1. Smoking causes 8 million deaths a year
☠2. Cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of preventable disease,
disability, and death in the United States
☠3. Smoking causes or 9 out of 10 of all lung cancer deaths
☠4. A 30-year-old smoker can expect to live about 35 more years,
whereas a 30-year-old non-smoker can expect to live 53 more years
☠5. Smoking causes or 8 out of 10 of all deaths from chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD)
☠6. China is the world's largest overall consumer of cigarettes
☠7. Generally, men tend to use all tobacco products at higher rates than
women
☠8. Smoking leads to disease and disability and harms nearly every organ
of the body
☠9. Smoking 1 cigarette can take 11 minutes off your life
☠10. Smokers are 2.5 times more likely than a non-smoker to die before age
55 and 2 times as likely to die before 75.
☠11. Each year nearly half a million Americans pie prematurely of smoking or
exposure to secondhand Smokers
☠12. There are about 12.4 million smokers in Italy, accounting for 24.2% of the
population