Essay on Lung Cancer

Smoking causes lung cancer. This fact is indisputable. What is sometimes disputed is the extent to which the smoke from other

Cigarettes don’t only cause lung cancers but can also cause other problems to the heart and blood vessels. Some other cancers associated with smoking include larynx, esophagus, bladder, kidney, pancreas, stomach, and some other organs.

Also, the number of people who die from damage caused by smoking is five times greater than all other preventable deaths, considering traffic accidents, fires and other accidents, suicides, murders, and HIV. Finally, each year U.S. has spent $96,000 billion in medical expenses related to smoking (CDC, 2012).

According to the Healthy People 2020, each year, approximately 480,000 Americans die from tobacco-related illnesses. Further, more than 16 million Americans suffer from at least one disease caused by smoking. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2012). The effect of cigarette smoking is alarming. Use of tobacco in the form of smoking is not only dangerous to the one who is smoking but also to a non-smoker. Tobacco harms a human physically and mentally. Major cause of lung cancer is smoking. It is important to prevent the use of tobacco because it is the largest preventable cause of diseases and death in the United States. According to Chin, Hong, Gillen, Bates and Okechukwu (2012) Blue-collar workers smoke at higher rates than white-collar workers and

Smoking is injurious to health and a preventable cause of premature death. In the U.S.; it is estimated that one in each five adults smoke currently and about 480,000 people die prematurely from diseases caused by smoking or secondhand smoke exposure. (CDC tobacco use). The economic burden of tobacco use is also significant. About $100 billion per year is spent in medical expenses and another $100 billion per year in lost productivity. There is no safe level of smoking

Smoking is the leading cause of death in the U.S. each year. Smoking is more dangerous than most people expect. Smoking can lead to health problems for the consumer, can cause health problems to nonsmokers, and it can lead to drug use.

Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States. Cigarette smoking kills more than 480,000 Americans each year, with more than 41,000 of these deaths from exposure to secondhand smoke. In addition, smoking-related illness in the United States costs more than $300 billion a year, including nearly $170 billion in direct medical care for adults and $156 billion in lost productivity, Center For Disease Control (CDC 2017).

According to CDC (2011) smoking is not only the leading cause of preventable deaths, smoking aggravates the seriousness of other pathologies, creating health complications that need additional medical care, and requiring additional expense on the part of individuals and the taxpayers that support State and Federal health systems. Chronic illnesses, especially those that can lead to morbidity, the hours that employee can work and be productive. Therefore, there are additional costs to individuals and to the greater society. These additional costs and reductions in productivity can be avoided if States reinvest in smoking cessation campaigns at levels equal to or higher than in the 21st century. According to CDC (2011) and Werner (2008) smoking not only costs money, it takes off ten to fourteen years from the normal life expectancy of the smoker and those that are exposed to second hand smoke regularly.

Cigarette smoking harms almost every organ in the human body. Smoking cigarettes leads to heart disease, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and lung cancer. As of today, the United States has about 440,000 deaths per year from people smoking cigarettes. This is nearly one in five deaths. It causes more deaths than human immunodeficiency virus (HIV/AIDS), use of drugs and alcohol, bicycle, motorcycle, car, gun, bus, train, ship, aircraft, or spacecraft accidents. Smoking causes nine out of ten of all lung cancer deaths. Smoking causes eight out of ten of all deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Tobacco addiction comes from nicotine, which reacts with organs and cells in the brain and body. Women who are exposed to cigarette smoke while pregnant risk having their child suffer from long term effects of tobacco. Indirect contact with smoke can also cause these health

One thing we learned about is tobacco and how it affects people, in the U.S. there are more than 400,000 tobacco related deaths. That is a lot of people. Chewing tobacco can cause mouth cancer, tooth loss, and many other health problems. Smoking is often linked to tobacco. There are 200 known chemicals in cigarette smoke, which leads into secondhand smoke. You don’t have to be a smoker to be killed by a cigarette, there are over 50,000 deaths per year due to secondhand smoke. Smoking also causes heart

Tobacco usage remains the main preventable reason for loss of life and illness within the US, with almost 443,000 fatalities taking place yearly due to smoking cigarettes and contact with second-hand cigarette smoke (CDC, 2008). Furthermore, almost ninety percent of adult people who smoke start using cigarettes from age eighteen years (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2012).

Smoking is one of the leading factors to death and illnesses among people around the world. Unfortunately about half of all American adults smoke. Research shows that more men smokes that women. Regarding consequences and complications of smoking, research shows that people who smokes have more chances of getting different types of cancers, such as esophageal cancer, lung cancer, throat cancer, bladders cancer, or mouth cancer. Other smoking complications are heart attack, COPD, asthma, and bronchitis. Regarding costs of tobacco use, research shows that there are many different advertisements regarding purchasing cigarettes (research shows that in recent years there were about ten billion dollars that was spend on advertising cigarettes) which

Nicotine use is a leading preventable cause of death in the world, directly and indirectly responsible for 440,000 deaths per year. The health problems that result in tobacco use tally an annual of $75 billion in direct medical costs (Slovic 36). That money spent on medical problems for smokers should be used to pay for more important things in our society such as schools, libraries, childcare, etc.

This study was done on 81 patients (73 males and 8 females) with primary lung cancer. Their ages ranging from 19 to 85 with mean age was 61.605 years old (±12.319 SD) as shown in table (1). Out of the 81 patients; 66 patients were smokers and ex smokers while 15 patients were non smokers as shown in table (2).

In United States annually around 443000 premature deaths occur due to exposure to tobacco and cigarette smoking.