Essay Smoking and Lung Cancer

     Lung cancer is the most common cancer-related cause of death among men and women. Lung cancer can be undetected for many years causing it to become more dangerous and possibly fatal. There is not cure for lung cancer or any cancer, but if detected in an early stage the lung cancer can be detected, treated, and hopefully terminated. There are many new and developing treatments being tested now that may save lives in the future. Through understanding what the lung cancer is, doctors can easily diagnose and assess cancer patients.

Smoking can bring about lung infection by harming your airways routes and the little air sacs (alveoli) found in your lungs. Smoking can bring about lethal infections, for example, pneumonia, lung growth and emphysema. Additionally smoking causes 83% of deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and smoking causes 84% of deaths from lung cancer (NHS , 2017) . However, there is a considerable measure of terrible illnesses connected to smoking cigarettes. Illnesses like throat malignancy, mouth tumour, bladder growth, lung growth, constant bronchitis, emphysema, and coronary illness are altogether brought about by smoking. Also smoking is addictive. Nicotine is the addictive substance

Causes: The foremost reason for lung cancer is cigarette smoking which causes around 90% of all deaths caused by lung cancer in the world. However, smoking is not the only way to get it. The second most frequent cause of lung cancer is exposure to radon gas, which

Recent studies show “that in 1982, approximately 1.2 million adults got lung cancer or died” according to Arden Pope III. The reason these people got sick and/or died is because of air pollution. People that smoke cigarettes are more likely to get lung cancer, than people who don’t smoke and the smokers are causing pollution also. Their not only affecting themselves with pollution, but their affecting other people's lives with the smoke that their releasing into the surface. For example myself. I have asthma and when people smoke near me I start to cough, get headaches, and the worst thing is when

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

Lung cancer is a very common to be diagnosed with and harmful to anyone who is exposed to many resources around the world: smoking (first hand and second hand) and pollution. Any resource that is made up of chemicals that are exposed into the air that people breathe, give the risk of affecting others with lung cancer. However, since smoking is the most popular way to cause lung cancer, many people are exposed to it from either firsthand or second hand. First hand smoking is when the person being affected is indirect contact with the source that is giving off the toxins, while secondhand is when the one being affected is not directly connected to the main source. Either way the chemicals and toxins that come from harmful resources soon will build up and affect one’s normal body

In 2015, 221,000 new cases of lung cancer will be diagnosed out of these cases. An estimated (86,380 in men and 71,660 women) will not survive this disease. Lung cancer is the leading cause of death out of all cancerous circumstances far exceeding that of the colon, breast, and prostate combined. As a result of the final decision made earlier this year by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to cover lung cancer screening with low-dose CT More men and women are expected to be diagnosed with lung cancer.

I have learned so much about this disease today. I learned that there are ways to try and prevent it and it can be treated. I also learned that the main cause for lung cancer is smoking. Smoking can do so many bad things to your body so if you smoke or you want to smoke, stop, don’t do it. Lung cancer is a very serious disease and it is one of the most common cancers in men and the fifth in women. Lung cancer is very common and dangerous disease but there are ways to help avoid it. I have learned so much today about how it is caused and how it effects people, just remember to stay away from unhealthy and risky

Most people know that smoking is one of the main causes of lung cancer. However, there are also other things that increase your cancer risk you are doing everyday. This includes breathing air full of smog to breathing the fumes from a running automobile or any gas powered engine.

Cancer, well cancer happens when too many cells have uncontrolled division of cells happen in one part of the body. The cells have lost the ability to grow like normal cells do. A Lot of cells together would be called a tumour. I can spread to other tissues and that can be life threatening. I gets threatening when the cancerous cells go into the blood vessels and then they can go into the other organs and that’s when it gets dangerous. Some ways you get this cancer is exposure to some viruses, exposure to toxic things, chemical products, radiation, sun, drinking alcohol, smoking tobacco, and eating junk food and not enough vegetables. The most common cancers are lung, breast, colorectal, stomach, and prostate cancer. Over 25 million people in the world live with cancer. 7 million people die from cancer each year.

Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer of men and women in the U.S. The main cause of lung cancer is smoking. (Health Risks, n.d.) Smoking weakens our body’s immune system due to the chemicals (carcinogens) that are found in cigarettes. People don’t realize how damaging these chemicals are in their bodies or maybe they do and just don’t think it will happen to them. Smoking not only causes cancer it, also causes other health issues such as heart disease, COPD, obesity and many others. The sad thing is cigarette companies know they are slowly killing people, yet they continue to advertise and sell their products. Although, this isn’t very hard for them to do with all the help they get from actors and actresses making films with them smoking. This is why kids start smoking at such a young age, because they see actors/actresses they idol doing it.

According to the US Department of Health and Services, More than 380,000 12-to-13-year-olds and almost four million 14-to-17-year-olds have smoked cigarettes at least once (Johnston, 2014, p.1). He also explained that the numbers of smokers between cigarettes, hookahs. E-cigarettes are increasing in the past few years between adults and teenagers (Johnston, 2014, p.3). I'm also concerned because my dad and my three brothers smoke more than 2 packs of cigarettes a day. Now let's discuss the causes of lung cancer.

To start with, One of the major causes of Lung Cancer is smoking cigarettes. Cigarettes contain some deadly chemicals the causes multiple cancers. (According to Lynne Eldridge, MD 2016) “Smoking is responsible of ninety percent of Lung Cancer.” Any type of smoke is supposed to be inhaled especially cigarette smoke. Cigarette smoke causes more than just cancer. Smoking cigarettes can cause chronic bronchitis and also a recurring cough that you just can

Lung cancer is the number one killer of cancers of both men and women here in the United States. It accounts for 28% of the death rates due to cancer. In 1999, it is estimated that 1,221,800 new cases of cancer are expected to occur and out of these 171,600 are to be cases of lung cancer. (Meyer 1990)

For a country in our financial position the general health of Scotland is very poor. In some areas the average life expectancy is as low as 54 years old for men. A major cause of this is smoking. With the young in particular smoking is much more popular than it used to be. In October 2008, it was estimated that one third of 16-24 year olds smoke. This figure is at a 10 year high. In between the ages of 16-19 it is found that girls are more likely to smoke than boys.