Cancers caused by smoking

After years of world-wide research, it is very much clear now that smoking is the single biggest cause of cancer. Cigarette smoke contains hundreds of deadly carcinogens like Arsenic, Ammonia and Hydrogen Cyanide. A smoker inhales them without even thinking what the havoc these carcinogens can create inside him. Although the list of diseases which cigarette smoke can produce is very long but cancer is the disease which can be easily ranked first in this list. Just to get an idea, one in the four cancer deaths in UK is because of cigarette smoke.

Cancer has various types so we can’t say that there is a specific type of cancer which one can get from cigarette smoke. Lung cancer, Larynx cancer, Cervix cancer, Pancreatic cancer, Stomach cancer, Mouth cancer, Throat cancer and Breast cancer are the cancers caused by smoking.

Lung cancer tops the smoking related cancers list and more than fifty percent of cancer deaths are due to lung cancers. It is very dangerous as it is most difficult cancer to treat. Secondhand smoking is also a major cause of this cancer type. There are very rare cases in which a non-smoker has developed such type of cancer.  In men, 90% of lung cancers caused by smoking and this percentage drops down to 80% in women but that’s of course still alarming.

Larynx cancer is most likely to be developed in men who smoke more than one pack a day. Cervix cancer is mostly seen to be developed in women who smoke and exactly same is the case of Uterus and Vulvar cancer. So cigarette equally harms you, no matter whether you are a male or female. Remember there is no such thing as safe cigarette at all and the one you have just finished has increased the risk of cancer in your body.

Pancreatic cancer and stomach cancer are two more dangerous cancers that can be caused by smoking but they are not so common. Stomach cancer, which is also termed as Ulcer is because of the acid like taste which cigarette smoke produces in your mouth.

Mouth cancer risks increases for a smoker and according to studies, the risk of such caner increases among those who smoke cigars and pipes. A very good question can be posed here and that is why not every smoker dies of cancer? Answer is simple; it is not a nature’s rule that every smoker has to die of cancer but the risk of cancer increases dramatically in a smoker as compared to a non smoker. So, give up this bad habit before cancer hits you.