More than one third the incidence of smoking-related cancers

Reporter learned from the Tianjin Tumor Hospital, China about 100 million people die each year from smoking related diseases, deaths due to passive smoking disease more than 10 million, and passive smoking hazards awareness rate was only 35%.

In recent years, a gradual increase in the incidence of malignant tumors, the occurrence of more than one third of cancer associated with smoking, has become a threat to the health of urban and rural residents of China's number one killer. In addition to lung cancer most closely associated with smoking, the smoke will be on the larynx, oral cavity, tongue, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, bladder, kidney, and the incidence of cervical cancer and so on have an impact.

Chinese Academy of Engineering, Tianjin Cancer Hospital, said Professor Hao Xishan, active smoking and passive smoking-induced cancers will be. Secondhand smoke contains more than 40 kinds of cancer-related toxic substances. In China, the main victims of passive smoking are women and children.

HAO Xi-shan to remind you that quitting smoking is the most effective cancer prevention methods. For smokers, the early quit smoking better than later, even if the middle-age smoking, will also reduce the risk of cancer.