The Relation between Tobacco Smoking and Lung Cancer
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2020-03-11
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faculty of Basic Medical Science - Libyan International Medical University
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Tobacco smoking is a widely distributed public health problem and it is the leading
cause of lung cancer. The incidence from lung cancer is trying to be controlled and
reduced over the past years and the coming years in certain regions around the world
due to decades of tobacco control policies and public education; meanwhile in other
regions its uncontrolled and the mortality from lung cancer is expected to increase
over the coming years because of the long term smokers which their ages range
between 45-54 years, as nicotine is responsible for the uncontrollable addiction. For
instance, in the US, new cases of lung cancer were estimated and they were 121,680
for men and 112,350 for women, for a total of 234,030, the equivalent of 641 lung
cancers per day.
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Tobacco smoking is life threatening. Over 4000 chemicals each cigar contains which
it has been improved over the past 30 years. Many of them are toxic, poisonous, and
invincible enough to cause different types of lung cancer either in a benign or
malignant condition, followed by a high probability of fatal conditions. The most
common cause of cancer death in men and second most common in women after
breast cancer is lung cancer or lung tumor [1]. Worldwide in 2012 lung cancer
resulted in 1.6 million deaths. Among the tremendous amount of chemicals found
within a cigar, there are crucial chemicals that have been considered the top
carcinogenic agents of tobacco smoking.
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