Smoking and Cancer- Unbelievable Facts!!

Smoking is associated with a number of serious health complications including cancer. Smoking can leads several forms of cancer i.e. esophagus, oral cavity, throat, stomach, cervix, lungs, bladder, larynx, pharynx, kidney, pancreas cancer but the most commonly found among all these is “lung cancer”. This is due to the fact that cigarette smoke contains over 4000 chemicals, with over 40 of them being carcinogens.

Facts Associated with Smoking and Cancer:

• Smoking leads to 90% of Lung cancer death in men and 80% in women.

• Cancer is the second leading cause of death and lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death.

• In case of men, smokers have 23 times more chances of suffering from lung cancer than nonsmokers. However women who smoke are about 13 times more likely to suffer from lung caner.

• In United States, smoking is a major cause of esophageal cancer.

• Carcinogens present in tobacco smoke can damage vital genes which control the growth of cells leading them to reproduce or grow abnormally.

• People who smokes as well as consume alcohol has higher risk of laryngeal cancer

• Cigarette smoking increases the chance of developing mouth cancer especially in case of those people who smoke pipes and cigars.


All the above facts are unbelievable but still they all are true. Smoking will not be benefiting you in any case on the contrary will leave you with a number of health problems. Thus don’t let smoking spoil your health and quit it as soon as possible.