Cigarette smoking and lung cancer...some facts and detail.
Cigarette smoking and lung cancer is by far the greatest concern for many people who smoke. This is no wonder. Cigarette smoking is by far the main cause of lung cancer. In fact over 90% of lung cancer deaths are as a result of cigarette smoking.
Essentially lung cancer is the unnameable cell growth of lung tissue. Cigarette smoke contains many toxins including carbon monoxide, nicotine and tar. When smoking you inhale 90% of the smoke produced in cigarette combustion. This is taken into your lungs and contains tar, and over 60 known carcinogens amongst which many are responsible for cancer. About 10% is what you breathe out and other people breath in as secondhand smoke.
Nicotine works against your immune system making your body ineffective in fighting the setting in of lung disease including cancer. There is a strong relationship between the length of time a person has been smoking and the increased risk of developing lung cancer. The link is so strong to the extent that quitting smoking will steadily decrease the chance of lung cancer. Right away a natural process of repair will begin were toxins are naturally discharged from your body.
Cigarette smoking and lung cancer appears to mainly target people over 45 years of age. This however does not rule out younger folk. Sadly by the time an individual shows lung cancer symptoms the cancer spread would have ravaged. The following are some indicative symptoms of lung cancer;
Dyspnea
Hemoptysis
Chronic coughing
Wheezing
Chest pain (or abdomen pain)
Weight loss
Fatigue
Loss of appetite
Hoarse voice
Swallowing difficulties
Drumstick fingers/Fingernail clubbing (also caused by many other things)
Depending on the advancement of the damage, some outside induced assistance through non toxic herbal remedies might be needed. This will speed up the restoration process.
The use of herbal remedies is even made urgent by statistical information that shows up to 40% of new cancer cases occurring in former smokers. Herbal treatments speeds up the lung healing process.
Passive smoking may also lead to lung cancer. This is likely in people who spend a lot of time with smokers or live in the same house with smokers. They take in the 10% of smoke not inhaled by smokers as well as smoke from smoldering cigarettes. This smoke is also trapped in clothing, carpets, hair and so on. The other name of this type of smoke is side stream smoke. Main stream is what the smoking person actually inhales into the lungs.
There are other lung cancer causes besides cigarette smoking. Lung cancer is also caused by certain gases, viruses and asbestos. For asbestos there is a fierce campaign to ban asbestos use for this very reason.
Should the cancer grow in the airway, air flow obstruction might occur resulting in difficult breathing. Ultimately, the patient might be predisposed to pneumonia as a result of accumulation of secretions behind the obstructed airway. Therein lays the link between smoking and pneumonia.
The only effective way to fight the effects of cigarette smoking-lung cancer is through prevention. If you smoke the best thing to do is to stop smoking. This will immediately begin a healing process in your lungs.
To quote a senior representative of the UN;
"A cigarette is a euphemism for a cleverly crafted product that delivers just the right amount of nicotine to keep its user addicted for life before killing the person."
World Health Organization director-general Gro Harlem Brundtland
Cigarette smoking and lung cancer should be your concern if you smoke. A concern for communities and governments world wide.
