In the Netherlands, in 1948 reported a possible link between smoking and lung cancer. This was followed soon other scientific evidence that smoking can cause cancers. Especially the deceased Sir Richard Doll in 2005 from England has pioneered. Doll was the first to devastating relationship between smoking and cancer scientifically proven.
Smoking causes lung cancer. Of all people with lung cancer is nearly 90% of cases directly attributable to smoking. In 9323 deceased people to lung cancer in 2004, with 8033 times smoking was the cause. Scientists have calculated that one in seven smokers (early) dies from lung cancer.
Lung cancer in nonsmokers is not often. How great the risk of lung cancer by smoking, depending on how long and how much is smoked. There is a clear dose-response relationship. The most effective way to prevent lung cancer is not smoking.
Because passive smoking to lung cancer can also cause non-smokers are recommended to minimize the tobacco smoke of others to breathe.
Numbers
Since 1950 the Netherlands has almost 300,000 deceased from lung cancer. The majority were men. The number of men who get lung cancer in recent years become less and less. This contrasts with the dramatic increase in female lung cancer patients since the early eighties is observed. This increase is largely due to the increased number of women since the fifties has become smokers.
Smoking and other cancers
Besides lung cancer has shown a relationship between smoking and some other cancers. These are:
* Cancer of the mouth or pharynx
* Esophageal cancer
* Stomach cancer
* Pancreatic cancer
* Liver cancer
* Kidney
* Bladder Cancer
* Cervical Cancer
* Acute myeloid leukemia
Tags: cancer with smoking, Kidney, Lung cancer, risk of lung, risk of lung cancer, smoking and cancer, Stomach cancer
