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Lung Cancer

Lung cancer is the single largest cause of cancer deaths in the United States, “About 178,000 new cases will be diagnosed this year, and there will be an estimated 160,000 deaths” (US HHS 1). What is ironic about lung cancer death statistics is that all of the deaths are caused primarily from individuals who smoke, or are subjected to second hand smoke inhalation. Other than a small percentage of those deaths being attributable to the inhalation of radon gas, all of the deaths from lung cancer are traceable to smoking, “The Environmental Protection Agency estimated that about 10 percent of American lung cancer cases were caused by Radon. About 150,000 Americans die of lung cancer annually, with about 85 percent of those deaths attributed to smoking” (Risks 1). Therefore, smoking is almost single-handedly the cause of lung cancer and lung cancer deaths (not to mention a host of other illnesses) making lung cancer one of the most preventable fatal diseases in history.

Lung cancer is responsible for one of every four cancer deaths in the United States and the five-year survival rates of patients who are diagnosed with the disease have stayed low mainly because the disease is often diagnosed too late for effective intervention, “Five-year survival rates have remained stubbornly low at 12 percent in 1973, 13 percent in 1992, and 14 percent today” (US HHS 1). Tobacco use is definitely the major cause of lung cancer and it is also responsible for a number of other heart and respiratory illnesses. Smoking is also linked as a primary cause of bladder cancer. Unfortunately, most lung cancer is detected in its later stages when little can be done to save the afflicted individual’s life. Yet, despite lung cancer being a wholly preventable disease, millions of Americans still continue to smoke and use tobacco products.

What is even more disturbing about cigarette smoking is that it has also been proven to cause lung c...

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