What percent of serious smokers end up dying of lung cancer and other smoking related diseases?
Question by LizW: What percent of serious smokers end up dying of lung cancer and other smoking related diseases?
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Answer by Spreedog
This is always a good question. About half of long term smokers die from this addiction – either from cancers of the lung, mouth, throat, esophagus, stomach, bladder, etc. – or from heart disease, chronic lung disease, peripheral vascular disease, et al. Everyone knows someone who has lived to be 90 and smoked for decades. Some people get away with it – but many do not.
More people die from lung cancer than any other type of cancer. In 2004 – lung cancer killed more people than breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer combined. Lung cancer accounts for 31% of all deaths from cancer, and 90% of these could have been prevented if people had not smoked cigarettes.
In 2004,
108,355 men and 87,897 women were diagnosed with lung cancer – - – 89,575 men and 68,431 women died from lung cancer †
Bottom line – Most cannot be cured
Estimates for 2008 215,020 new cases of lung cancer 114,690 men and 100,330 women in the U.S.
60% of people diagnosed with either type of lung cancer
(non-small cell or small cell) are dead in 1 year.
73% are dead by 2 years.
1 in 7 people diagnosed with lung cancer survive 5 years
– most of those who are cured are cured with initial surgery
- – not with chemotherapy.
Male smokers – lifetime risk of lung cancer is 1 in 6
Female smokers – the risk of lung cancer is 1 in 9
Risk of lung cancer in non-smokers is 1 in 77
Can J Public Health. 1994 Nov-Dec;85(6):385-8.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7895211
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