• Each year, about 200,000 people in the United States are told they have lung cancer and more than 150,000 people die from this disease. • About 90% of lung cancers are linked with cigarette smoking. • When a person breathes in secondhand smoke, it is like he or she is smoking. In the United States, about 7,300 people who never smoked die from lung cancer due to secondhand smoke every year. • After increasing for decades, lung cancer rates are decreasing nationally, as fewer people smoke cigarettes. • Smoking can cause cancer almost anywhere in the body. Smoking causes cancers of the lung, mouth, nose, throat, voicebox (larynx), esophagus, liver, bladder, kidney, pancreas, colon, rectum, cervix, stomach, blood, and bone marrow (acute myeloid leukemia).
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:45:41 +0000
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