Over 8 million visits to office-based physicians each year are attributed to allergic rhinitis. Obstructive sleep apnea is as common as adult asthma. Sleep apnea can cause high blood pressure, increased risk of heart attacks and stroke, and even heart failure in severe cases. Nonsmokers can develop lung cancer, although the vast majority who get lung cancer are current or former smokers. In N.C., more women die from lung cancer than breast cancer.
More people die from lung cancer than colon, prostate and breast cancer combined.
Smoking cessation will definitely reduce an individual's risk of lung cancer. Each year, exposure to secondhand smoke causes 150,000 to 300,000 lower respiratory tract infections, such as pneumonia and bronchitis, in U.S. infants and children younger than 18 years of age. Some cigars contain as much tobacco as one whole pack of cigarettes. All increase risks for lip, mouth, tongue and lung cancer. Dipping snuff is highly addictive - it has levels of nicotine equal to cigarettes and increases your chance of oral cancer by as much as 50 times.