Smoking and Cancer

        Smoking tobacco or rather inhaling the fumes of the toxic materials does affects the various parts of the respiratory system, thereby causing bronchitis, emphysema, and cancer. In fact a research conducted by the university of Oxford stated that the infamous lung Cancer do accounts for almost one quarter of all the deaths from cancer and almost 90% of those cancers are initiated by smoking. 

      Each and every year about 27,000 men and around 9,000 women in the united Kingdom along passes on as a result of cancer. Almost 25% of the whole lot of regular Cigarette smoker are likely to die premature death due to their smoking habit. Nor is the picture rosy for the future. Tobacco kills more than 500,000, women annually in the industrialized world and is a major problem in the developing countries. Despite the fact the lung cancer is a public disaster, and has been made public, it is still on the rise in the united states and its incidence did rise notably in the year 1960s and 1985.

          There are reckoned to be around 3,000 chemicals in the tobacco that we smoke and several other dangerous chemicals known as Carcinogens. Smoking does increases the risks of cancers to the Larynx (Voicebox), Mouth, Oesophagasus (Gullet), Bladder, Breast, Cervix and of course the other parts of the lungs.

The Problem

The problem does arise in the cells does line the bronchial tubes, Then a cancerous tumour forms a fibrous lump amid the air sacs (Alveoli). Cancerous cells break through the sacs and invade the other bronchial tubes.

Characteristics of cancer of the lungs

Cancer of the lungs can be characterized by

1.  chronic cough,
2. Developing pneumonia like symptoms with some shortness of the breath and having bloody sputum.
3. Loss of weight them follows, which is accompanied by some hoarseness and some difficulties ion swallowing.

    4.   And as the disease progresses fluids does accumulates in the pleural  cavity (Chest wall)

Treatments of lung Cancer.

           Surgery still remains to be the only treatments, alongside with symptomatic relief using the radiotherapy and the chemotherapy. And even at this stage stopping smoking will be a help in relieving breathing stress, Though quitting before cancer is initiated is the best idea. And after 5 years of quitting, if the exists no cancer signs at all, then the risk of developing cancer is reduced. And after 10 smoke free years the risk is about the same as that of a non-smoker. It is well worth the effort. 

         So if you think you are the only one struggling to quit this slavery, then just put on more effort, research has shown that more than 5 million people have quit smoking since 1980s