... Cancer is a disease in which cells multiply without control, destroy healthy tissue, and endanger life. About 100 kinds of cancer attack human beings. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, among both men and women. Lung cancer claims more lives then colon, prostate and breast cancer ... combined. In 1999 about 91,000 men and 68,000 women died of lung cancer. The peak age for lung cancer ... is 65years for men and 70 years for woman. The disease is uncommon before the age of 40. The exact cause of lung cancer ... investigated immediately; so should whee...

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... in developed countries died as a result of smoking. One tobacco use is responsible for nearly one in five deaths in the United States. Lung Cancer mortality are about 23 times higher for current male smokers and 13 times higher for current female smokers compared to a lifelong never-smoker. In ... also associated with cancers of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, pancreas, uterine cervix, kidney, and bladder. Smoking accounts for at least 29% of all cancer deaths, is a major cause of heart disease, and is associated with conditions ranging from colds and gastric ulcers to chronic bro...

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... of the health consequences of tobacco use, or exposure to second-hand smoke, are: An increased risk for developing cancer of the lungs, mouth, pharynx (throat), larynx (voice box), espophagus (tube from the mouth to the stomach), sinuses, thyroid gland, bladder, kidney, panceas, breast, uterus and cervix. An increased risk for developing lung diseases such as bronchitis, emphysema and pneumonia. A greater likelihood ... ...

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Some of the health consequences of tobacco use, or exposure to second-hand smoke, are: An increased risk for developing cancer of the lungs, mouth, pharynx (throat), larynx (voice box), espophagus (tube from the mouth to the stomach), sinuses, thyroid gland, bladder, kidney, panceas, breast, uterus and cervix. An increased risk for developing lung diseases such as bronchitis, emphysema and pneumonia. A greater likelihood ... ...

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... Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that exposure to ETS, which contains all of the same toxic chemicals that the smoker inhales, causes 3000 cancer deaths a year in non-smokers. It can also provoke less serious diseases such as asthma, impaired blood circulation, bronchitis, and pneumonia. ... one third of all cancer deaths. An estimated 67,000 women die each year from lung cancer. About 73% of these deaths are 35 to 45 years old. Lung cancer is the leading killer, even surpassing Breast Cancer. These deaths are due to smoking. The lung cancer death rate has increased ... b...

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... States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that exposure to ETS, which contains all of the same toxic chemicals that the smoker inhales, causes 3000 cancer deaths a year in non-smokers. It can also provoke less serious diseases such as asthma, impaired blood circulation, bronchitis, and pneumonia. 5 Facts ... and at least 1.5 million adolescent girls smoke cigarettes. The use of tobacco in this population has been shown to increase the risk of cancer, heart and respiratory disease, and reproductive disorders. More than 140,000 women die each year from smoking related diseases....

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... nonsmoking women. The increase in lung cancer among women parallels the increase in smoking in women over the past six decades. Between 1960 and 1990, the death rate from lung cancer among women increased by more than 400 percent, and the rate is continuing to increase. In 1987, lung cancer surpassed breast cancer as the number one cause of cancer deaths among American women. In 1995 ... , lung cancer killed 62,000 women; of those deaths, 47,182 (76.1 percent) are attributable to ... smoking. In addition to lung cancer, tobacco use is a major risk factor for cancers of the mouth, throat...

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... . Secondhand smoke involuntarily inhaled by nonsmokers from other people's cigarettes is classified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a known human (Group A) carcinogen, responsible for approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths annually in U.S. nonsmokers. Approximately 22.3 million American women are smokers. Current female smokers aged 35 years or older are 12 times more likely to die prematurely from lung ... cancer than nonsmoking females. More American women die annually from lung cancer than any other type of cancer; for example, lung cancer will cause an estimated 67,600...

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... the center. Tar is very harmful to the human respiratory system because it collects and clogs up the bronchi and it contributes a great deal to cancer and respiratory diseases. Nicotine damages your brain right after you first smoke by opening up the receptors in it. When you sleep at night the ... long-term effects. Long-term effects, which happen after years and years of smoking, include Emphysema, heart disease; pregnancy complications and the well know disease Cancer. Emphysema is an incurable, smoking related disease, in which the air sacs at the end of the lung's bronchi become weak...

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... in the workplace conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health determined that the evidence they have indicates that environmental tobacco smoke poses an increased risk of lung cancer and possibly heart disease in individuals exposed to ETS in the workplace. I found that studies of environmental tobacco smoke under normal conditions, the components are so diluted below ... of tobacco smoke may lead to adverse health effects even though the PEL's are often not exceeded. The agency published in a proposed rule in April 1994 that lung cancer and heart disease are m...

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... all have learned that lung cancer, 90 percent of which led by smoking tobacco, is the largest cause of cancer deaths in the United States (est. 150,000 per year). Not only that, it can cause developing cancers of the mouth, larynx, pharynx, esophagus, bladder, kidney, cervix, breast and pancreas. It is ... and were even encouraged by some doctors and government policies. In 1936, Dr Alton Ochsner of St. Louis found out that most of lung cancer afflicted patients were men who smoked heavily since the World War I. This led other similar studying about smoking in 1950's, and President John...

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... to remember the fighters against Fascism by sending them tobacco One may ask how tobacco is lasting so long if it has been known to cause cancer for decades. In the beginning Tobacco companies had a lot of money to spend to beat lawsuits that formed back in the mid 1900's. For ... example a woman named Rose Cipollone, a smoked dying from lung cancer, sued the liggett group saying that they failed to warn her of the dangers of smoking. She won a 400,00 setlement initially but she could ... lists are often published with disturbing facts with all the different poisons included in cigare...

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... disease in young people because secondhand smoke is cigarette, cigar or pipe smoke that is inhaled unintentionally by nonsmokers. When exposed to secondhand smoke lung caner kills more women than breast cancer and is the second leading cause of premature death for men. Secondhand smoke inhalation causes increased risk of lung infections and lung disease as bad as pneumonia, bronchitis, asthma, emphysema ... ...

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... the right to life. These rights are being infringed upon when non-smokers are around a lit cigarette. Illnesses that can form from second-hand smoke include lung cancer, asthma, heart disease, stroke, emphysema, breast cancer, allergies and high blood pressure (Gelmon 150). Many Canadians are unaware of the seriousness of second hand smoke and the government is not doing everything it can do ... ...

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Smoking can be harmful Smoking can be very harmful to a person's health. Also a smell of smoke can bother a person, who does not smoke. Smoking causes cancer and other diseases, and others around them as well. Smoking is not only problem for old people, but also it's problem for teenagers. I know lots of people that smoke, it ... smoker, a headaches, eye irritation, and dizziness. Some of the cancers that can be detected in smokers are lung, mouth, and throat. Some of these diseases are asthma, heart diseases. These cancer and diseases are not only found in smokers, but in second-hand smoker...

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