- The most effective primary prevention strategy for lung cancer in current cigarette smokers is to quit smoking,tobacco.
- World Health Organisation (WHO) prove that smoking is the single largest preventable cause of death worldwide. Of everyone alive today 5,00,000,000 will eventually be killed by tobacco-use.
- Smoking is responsible for 90 percent of all forms of lung cancer, and 75 percent of cases involving chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
- Tobacco smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals, 60 of which-including arsenic, used in ant poison; methanol, found in rocket fuel; and DDT, an insecticide-are either known or suspected to be carcinogens.
- “On a global scale, smoking kill 560 people every hour 13,400 people per day, and 4.9 million people per year” – World Health Organistion
- “Tobacco is a carcinogenic substance and the prime cause of heart disease, stroke and chronic lung disease. It also leaves the body susceptible to tuberculosis. Around 2,00,000 smokers in India succumb to TB each year
- Preventable Causes of Death:
- Heart disease (primarily caused by smoking)
- Cancer (primarily caused by smoking)
- Stroke (primarily caused by smoking)
- Chronic obstructive lung diseases (primarily caused by smoking)
- Kidney diseases (possibly induced by smoking)
- Liver diseases (possibly induced by smoking)
