Smoking
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Smoking is a thing people do to destroy their health. On the plus side... these people may be cheaper to care for, i.e. they have lower health care costs, as they die earlier.[1][2]
Non-malignant disease
- Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
Cancer
- Lung cancer, esp. small cell carcinoma, squamous carcinoma, mesothelioma.
- Bladder cancer (urothelial carcinoma).[3]
- Kidney cancer (renal cell carcinoma).[3]
- Head and neck cancer (squamous cell carcinoma - mouth, larynx, pharynx, esophagus).
- Colorectal cancer (adenocarcinoma).
- Cervical cancer (carcinoma).[4]
- Pancreatic carcinoma.[4]
- Myeloid leukaemia.[5]
Second hand smokers
The relative risk for lung cancer in second hand smokers versus non-smokers is approximately 1.3.[6]
No association with cancer
- Breast cancer.
References
- ↑ van Baal PH, Polder JJ, de Wit GA, et al. (February 2008). "Lifetime medical costs of obesity: prevention no cure for increasing health expenditure". PLoS Med. 5 (2): e29. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050029. PMC 2225430. PMID 18254654. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2225430/.
- ↑ Staddon, John. "The Social Benefits of Smoking". http://www.carolinajournal.com/articles/display_story.html?id=5041. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Smoking Related Cancers". http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/smoking-related-cancers.html. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Martin, Terry. "Smoking and Cancer - Statistics for the U.S.". http://quitsmoking.about.com/od/tobaccostatistics/a/cancerstats.htm. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
- ↑ "Tobacco and cancer risk - statistics". http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/causes/lifestyle/tobacco/. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
- ↑ Mitchell, Richard; Kumar, Vinay; Fausto, Nelson; Abbas, Abul K.; Aster, Jon (2011). Pocket Companion to Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease (8th ed.). Elsevier Saunders. pp. 214. ISBN 978-1416054542.