Tobacco Use and the Big C

Tobacco Use and the Big C

So you are pooh-poohing the notion that using tobacco causes cancer, are you? Perhaps you should rethink your position. Did you know that the risk of dying from lung cancer is 22 times higher for men and 12 times higher for women who smoke than those who don’t? It’s true and the statistics don’t lie.

Lung cancer is not the only cancer that tobacco use causes, either. Cancer of the lip, cancer in the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, pancreas, larynx (voice box), lung, uterine cervix, urinary bladder, and kidney are all multiplied greatly when tobacco …