This web page written by thoracic surgeon Fred Grannis MD represents an attempt to provide smokers, lung cancer patients and their families with information on cigarette smoking, cessation, lung cancer risk, diagnosis and treatment. If you have reached The Lung Cancer and Cigarette Smoking Web Page either on Compuserve or on Geocities, please be advised of the following change of address. Because of problems maintaining the page at this ISP location, the page has been moved to a new location.
Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer deaths in both men and women in the United States.
More than 160,100 Americans will die from lung cancer in 1998. World Health Organization director-general Gro Harlem Brundtland Recent polls indicate that, despite all accumulated knowledge on the subject of diseases caused by tobacco products, a shockingly high percentage of smokers continue to believe that their cigarettes will not cause them harm. This page is dedicated to changing this intolerable ignorance. It is my hope that anyone who visits here and browses through the pages of the Lung Cancer and Cigarette Smoking Web Page will leave with eyes open to the danger of lung cancer and other diseases caused by tobacco. A recent National Cancer Institute focus group suggests that many ex-smokers believe that they are no longer at risk for lung cancer.