Winter Maladies: Natural Approaches
June Russell's Health Facts
Smoking - Cancer
Cigarette smoking increases the risk of cancer. (“Addictive Substances: Nicotine,” Let’s Live magazine, Oct 1996)
Filter cigarettes and the use of blended reconstituted tobacco releases greater amounts of carcinogenic nitrosamines are partly to blame for the increase in lung cancer. (Reuters, Yahoo! Nov. 1997)
Breast cancer can quadruple in smoking postmenopausal women. (Reuters, Nov. 1996)
For colon cancer prevention -don't smoke. (Cancer Care, CBS Healthwatch Library, 1998)
Smoking increases the risk of colorectal cancer. (“Colorectal cancer,” Harvard Women’s Health Watch, April 1999)
Patients with colorectal cancer are found more often in smokers than nonsmokers. The longer people used cigarettes and the greater amount of tobacco used, the greater the risk was. (“Smoking may increase colorectal cancer risk,” Reuters Health, HealthCentral.com - April 2000)
Smoking cigarettes for 25 years appears to promote lung cell growth and increase the risk of cancer - even after kicking the habit. (Reuters, Aug. 1997)
Smokers with prostate cancer have a higher death rate than nonsmokers with the disease. (Reuters Feb. 1997)
Cigarette smoking increases the risk of bladder cancer 2-3 times that of nonsmokers. (“Bladder Cancer,” HealthCentral.com - March 2000)
Medical researchers say low-tar cigarettes are causing a new wave of cancer among smokers who tend to inhale more deeply, according to a British newspaper. People change the way they smoke low-tar cigarettes, the milder the cigarette, the more likely a smoker is to inhale deeply into the lungs. (“Low-Tar Cigarettes Seen Causing New Cancer Wave,” Reuters, London, Yahoo.com - Nov. 1997)
Filter cigarettes allowed smokers to inhale more deeply, causing a specific rare cancer to become common. (Reuters, Nov. 1997)
Nicotine can trigger the growth of new blood vessels, which has been implicated in the spread of cancer says a report in the journal Nature Medicine. This suggests that nicotine-replacement therapy should only be used short-term. (HealthCentral.com - July 2001)
Alcohol with tobacco use has a synergistic effect or compounded risk. (“Minimizing the risk of getting cancer,” Washington Post Health, Aug. 1, 1995)
Skin cancer can now be added to the ever-growing list of illnesses linked to cigarette smoking, and smokers are twice as likely to develop one of the more common types of skin cancer - squamous cell carcinoma. The more cigarettes smoked, the higher the risk. (“Smoking ups risks for skin cancer,” Reuters Health, Journal of Clinical Oncology, HealthCentral.com - Jan. 2001)
Smoking cigarettes for 25 years appears to promote lung cell growth and increase the risk of cancer - even after kicking the habit. (Reuters, Aug. 1997)
Smoking is tied to a doubling of gastric cancer. (Reuters, Sept. 1997)