smoking a hazardous disease paragraph
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haa smoking is injuries to health it causes lung disease
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About half of all Americans who keep smoking will die because of the habit. Each year more than 480,000 people in the United States die from illnesses related to tobacco use. This means each year smoking causes about 1 out of 5 deaths in the US.
Smoking cigarettes kills more Americans than alcohol, car accidents, HIV, guns, and illegal drugs combined.
Cigarette smokers die younger than non-smokers.
Smoking shortens male smokers’ lives by about 12 years and female smokers’ lives by about 11 years.
Smoking not only causes cancer. It can damage nearly every organ in the body, including the lungs, heart, blood vessels, reproductive organs, mouth, skin, eyes, and bones.
How smoking tobacco affects your cancer risk
Smoking accounts for about 30% of all cancer deaths in the United States, including about 80% of all lung cancer deaths. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in both men and women, and is one of the hardest cancers to treat.
Not only does smoking increase the risk for lung cancer, it’s also a risk factor for cancers of the:
Mouth
Larynx (voice box)
Pharynx (throat)
Esophagus (swallowing tube)
Kidney
Cervix
Liver
Bladder
Pancreas
Stomach
Colon/rectum
Myeloid leukemia
Cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and spit and other types of smokeless tobacco all cause cancer. There is no safe way to use tobacco.
Does inhaling affect the risk of cancer?
Yes. Wherever smoke touches living cells, it does harm. Even smokers who don’t inhale are breathing in large amounts of smoke that comes from their mouths and the lit end of the cigarette, cigar, or pipe. They are at risk for lung cancer and other diseases caused by secondhand smoke.