Tobacco smoking kills 1000 people in the US each day. Mortality rates for young and middle-aged cigaret smokers is 1.7 x that of nonsmokers. Cigaret smoke contains nearly 4.000 chemical matters . You will learn about the anatomic lung pathology of uncomplicated cigaret smoking later in the course. Lung cancer kills 140,000 people in the US each year.
Cures are rare.
The vast majority of these cancers are caused by cigaret smoking. Mouth cancer , throat cancer , larynx cancer , and esophageal cancer are all strongly associated with tobacco smoking. Bladder cancer rates are roughly tripled for cigaret smokers . Pancreatic cancer and kidney cancer rates are at least doubled for cigaret smokers. Leukemia and plasma cell myeloma are also probably increased in smokers.