Lung cancer threatens 1.3 billion smokers in the world

Beating the report of the International Agency for Research on Cancer IARC alarm, having highlighted the vastly increased numbers of cancer patients, particularly from poor and middle-income ...

This report issued recently confirmed that the issue of smoking in the forefront of the leading causes of cancer, especially in the eighties and nineties, pointing out that the number of smokers in the world reached 1.3 billion people, and is expected to reach the peak by the year 2030, note that the killer of many patients is lung cancer. Also recently recorded a rise in the number of breast cancer cases, and reached to about 5 percent a year.

While the cancer of the uterus, which is one of the most kinds susceptible to the prevention and treatment in major industrial countries, the fundamental cause of death among women of poor countries, including many parts of Africa. This report was able to clarify some points of difference between the occurrence of disease and causes of death, including that the incidence of breast cancer in Japan, Singapore, and Korea have doubled twice or three times during the last four decades.

 In a previous study showing that the prohibition of smoking in public places reduces heart attack! He said federal health experts that a ban on smoking led to a lower incidence of heart attacks by more than 40 percent in the U.S. city and that this decline continued for three years. Pueblo City and issued in the state of Colorado law prohibits local smoking in workplaces and public places in 2003 and track officials the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) then the incidence of heart attacks that were transferred to hospitals.

This study adds to existing evidence that the policies of not smoking can significantly reduce the incidence of heart disease and death. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, exposure to secondhand smoke for a long time can increase the incidence of heart disease in adult non-smokers by 25-30 percent.

They found that hospitals in Pueblo received 399 cases of heart attack over the 18 months before the ban, compared with 237 cases per year and a half following a decline by 41 percent. The team said in a weekly report to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's disease mortality and that this effect lasted three years. Said Janet Collins, director of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and maintaining the health of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "We know that passive smoking has a direct adverse impacts on the systems, the heart and blood vessels and that the exposure for a long time can be a cause of heart disease in adult non-smokers .