Tobacco smoking is a major cause of lung cancer. Carcinogens in tobacco smoke can damage the cells in the lungs, which may lead to the development of lung cancer.
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HEALTH EFFECTS OF SMOKING
Although everybody knows that smoking is bad for your health, do you know all the different types of problems caused by smoking?
Do you know what by smoking are your considerably increase your chances of developing various chronic diseases?
Passive smoking causes lung cancer
The release quoted the World Health Organization indicating that over 5 million people die around the world each year due both active and passive smoking, adding that it is common knowledge that many people innocently or unknowingly become victims of tobacco use by being passive smokers at their places of work, homes or public places.
Research has shown that non-smokers who reside with a smoker have a 24% increase in risk for developing lung cancer when compared with other non-smokers. An estimated 3,000 lung cancer deaths occur each year in the U.S. that are attributable to passive smoking.
Effects of passive smoking
Passive smoking is breathing in the smoke of other smokers, while not smoking a cigarette, cigar or pipe. assive smoke is a known cause of lung cancer, heart disease, chronic lung ailments such as bronchitis and asthma (particularly in children), and low birth-weight births.
