Alcohol Consumption
It is estimated that this year about 180,000 cancer deaths are caused by tobacco use, and about 19,000 may be related to excessive alcohol use. (ACS)
All cancers caused by smoking and heavy use of alcohol can be completely prevented. (ACS)
Alcoholic beverages, along with cigarette smoking and use of snuff and chewing tobacco, cause cancers of the oral cavity, esophagus and larynx. (ACS)
Studies show that the risk of breast cancer increases with an intake beginning at just a few drinks per week. (ACS)
Studies have noted an association between alcohol consumption and an increased risk of breast cancer. The combined use of tobacco and alcohol leads to a greatly increased risk of oral and esophageal cancers. (ACS)
Tobacco & Smoking
It is estimated that this year about 180,000 cancer deaths are caused by tobacco use, and about 19,000 may be related to excessive alcohol use. (ACS)
Stop smoking by age 30 and you slash your risk for lung cancer by 90%. Quit by age 50 and the risk drops by 77%. ( Eric Sabo, McCall’s Vol. CXXVII No.6)
All cancers caused by smoking and heavy use of alcohol can be completely prevented. (ACS)
Male smokers are about 20 times more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smokers. (ACS)
Lung cancer mortality rates are more than 20 times higher for current male smokers and 12 times higher for current female smokers. (US Department of Health and Human Services. Reducing the Health Consequences of Smoking: 25 Years of Progress. A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, Ga US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health; 1989)
Smoking is responsible for 87% of lung cancers.
Smoking accounts for at least 30% of all cancer deaths.
Cigar smoking causes cancer of the lung, oral cavity, larynx, esophagus, and probably cancer of the pancreas. It also makes the risk of dying from laryngeal, oral, or esophageal cancers 4 to 10 times greater. (Shanks TG, Burns DM. Disease Consequences of Cigar Smoking (chapter 4). In: Burns D, Cummings KM, Hoffman D, eds. Cigars: Health Effects and Trends, Monograph No. 9. Bethesda, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health; 1998)
Secondhand smoke, or environmental tobacco smoke(ETS), contains numerous human carcinogens for which there is no safe level of exposure. ( US Environmental Protection Agency. Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking: Lung Cancer and Other Disorders. Washington DC: US Environmental Protection Agency; 1992. (Report # EPA/600/6-90/006F)
Each year, about 3,000 nonsmoking adults die from lung cancer as a result of breathing secondhand smoke.
Tobacco and poor diet account for about two thirds of all deaths from cancer (Dileep G. Bal, MD, MS, MPH, President of the American Cancer Society)
|
