| Is there really a correlation between
smoking cigarettes and lung cancer? For those people who doubt
the Surgeon General’s warning, consider the late news anchor Peter
Jennings. Subsequent to 9/11, the highly reputed journalist took
up smoking again. In 2005, Jennings met his demise with lung cancer.
Although, it is one isolated case, lung cancer is tantamount to
sudden death. On the other side of the
coin, actress Dana Reeves, the widow of Christopher Reeves announced
that she was afflicted with lung cancer; however she never smoked.
The life robbing disease has raised many new questions on the
prevention.
Here are a few factual incentives to quit smoking
or even encourage a love one to give up cigarettes:
? There is only a 15 percent survival rate
of lung cancer
? In the United States, annually, approximately
new 174,000 diagnoses of lung cancer are made
? Tobacco is definitively the leading cause
of lung cancer
? When individual quit smoking prior to the
age of 50; the risk level can be reduced to the equivalency
of an individual who never smoked.
? Smoking cigarettes accounts for 87 percent
of lung cancer mortalities
After ten years of smoking cessation, the risk of lung cancer
death is reduced between 30 to 50 percent
? The technical jargon named by the Environmental
Tobacco Smoke (ETS) for someone who does not smoke is referred
to as ‘passive smoking’
? Each year, passive smoking accounts for 3,000
deaths
? Nutritional eating habits may offer a few
health incentives to protect smokers, former smokers as well
as non-smokers from lung cancer.
? Based on the recommendations in a report
released by the World Health Organization (WHO), eating a minimum
of four cups of both vegetables and fruits a day may potentially
lower lung cancer by 12 percent, worldwide
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