The Dangers of Smoking
Author: admin // Category: Air Pollution, Human Pollution, Smoking Affects
According to the World Health Organization, tobacco is the second largest cause of death worldwide. Leading cause of preventable death, tobacco each year, causing five million deaths. This is the only legal product sold that kills when used exactly as the manufacturer provides. It is well known that half of all smokers today, approximately 650 million people will eventually die from smoking. It is equally alarming that hundreds of thousands of people who have never smoked die each year from diseases caused by inhaling the smoke of others. Half of smokers consuming more than 15 cigarettes per day die of tobacco related disease and thousands of passive smokers pass away every year. Smoking is the abuse of tobacco, but all of the physiological and psychological disorders or poisoning caused by the abuse of tobacco. It is now undoubtedly responsible for a significant reduction in lifespan. We re-stated here that in the current state of scientific knowledge, we have only one life.
In the world during the twentieth century, tobacco has killed 100 million people and this number may rise to 1 billion for the XXI century if behaviors do not evolve (OFDT, 2005). Tobacco is currently responsible for the deaths of 10 adults (about 5 million deaths a year). If smoking continues on its current course, it will cause some 10 million deaths annually by 2020 according to WHO. In Europe, nearly 500 000 people die prematurely each year from diseases related to smoking, according to statements by David Byrne Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection. In France, around 66 000 people die each year from tobacco (over 10% of deaths) of which 27 000 per lung cancer (85% were caused by smoking) by the National League against Cancer. For a smoker in four, the average loss of life expectancy is twenty years and results in death before 65 years, according to a study by the Regional Health Observatory of France. France has about 15 million smokers are young people between 20 and 25 who smoke the most (48% of the age by OFDT).
Compared to a non-smoker, the risk of cancer of a smoker is multiplied by:
* 10 for lung and pharynx.
* 7 for the pharynx.
* 4 for the mouth and esophagus.
* 2 pour la vessie.
* 2 for the bladder.
The incidence of lung cancer is proportional to the number of cigarettes smoked per day. Indeed if one smokes 5 x 365 days for 15 to 20 years, this represents tens of thousands of cigarettes.
