Smoking is cancer’s queen. It is the most versatile and deadly chess piece that cancer can use against you. And while everyone knows about the link between smoking and lung cancer, you may not know that smoking as also associated with many others cancers, affecting almost every organ of the body.


According to the Centers for Disease Control, smoking causes about 90% of lung cancer deaths in men and almost 80% in women. It also increases the risk of cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, stomach, cervix, kidney and pancreas as well as a type of leukemia.


Other cancers are also suspected of being related to smoking. It is estimated to have caused some 57,000 new cases of bladder cancer in 2003 in the US and 30,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer. Secondhand smoke was designated as a known human carcinogen by the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1993.


If you do smoke, do whatever it takes to stop. See your doctor about getting help. If all your attempts to stop smoking fail, smoke as little as you can. Cutting back from a pack a day to half a pack or three quarters can reduce your risk. Make sure you get adequate Vitamin C if you do smoke.



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