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Oct

22

Tobacco: Facts to Support Tobacco-FREE Living!

Filed Under Life Coaching, Physical Healing

New data on the dangers of tobacco has been released.  Perhaps you do not use tobacco … Good for You!  You are acting positively toward creating Good Health for yourself!

Tobacco Dangers ... Freed! The Life Coach Dr. ,Dr. Marlene ShiplePossibly, you know someone who does use tobacco.  Or, perhaps, you love someone who uses tobacco.  In either of these cases, here are some facts that you might elect to share … it could mean the difference between Life and Death.

In the US, cigarette smoking is the most common form of tobacco use — about 45 million adults currently smoke cigarettes.  According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Morbidity and Morality Weekly Report, 9/10/10, about 22% of men and 17% of women were smokers in 2010.  Almost 80% of these people smoke daily.

The American Cancer Society reports that education is linked to smoking rates, with lower smoking rates in groups with higher levels of education. More people smoke in the Midwest (22%) and South (21.0%), and fewer smoke in the West (16%).  Further, according to the American Cancer Society, cigarette smoking has decreased among adults in the United States from about 42% of the population in 1965 to about 19% in 2010 (the latest year for which numbers are available).

Tobacco use does not end with cigarettes; other forms of tobacco use are common. In 2010, a survey by the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration found that 8.9 million people used spit or smokeless tobacco. The same survey reported that 13.2 million smoked cigars, and 2.2 million people smoked tobacco in pipes.

According to Cancer Facts & Figures 2012, tobacco use accounts for at least 30% of all cancer deaths and 80% of lung cancer deaths.  Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States for both men and women.  Lung cancer is also the most preventable form of cancer death in our society.  There were 160,340 deaths from lung cancer — 87,750 of those who died were male; 72,590, female.

Besides lung cancer, tobacco use also increases the risk for cancers of the mouth, lips, nasal cavity (nose) and sinuses, larynx (voice box), pharynx (throat), esophagus (swallowing tube), stomach, pancreas, kidney, bladder, uterus, cervix, colon/rectum, ovary (mucinous), and acute myeloid leukemia. In the United States, tobacco use is responsible for nearly 1 in 5 deaths; this equals about 443,000 early deaths each year. (Source: Cancer Facts & Figures 2012)

And these figures describe the consequences suffered by those who use tobacco directly.  They do not even begin to address the well-researched and well-documented dangers encountered by by-standers from second-hand smoke.

If there is someone you love — yourself included — who uses tobacco products, here is some Good News:  The habit of using tobacco can be changed!  Tobacco use can be successfully stopped!  To learn more, visit Successful Strategies to Stop Tobacco Use.

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