Is Smoking Really the Main Cause of Lung Cancer?

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Smoking is the main cause of lung cancer. There are many other causes also but smoking is the main culprit. Amongst other causes exposure to asbestos, exposure to randon gas, air pollution, family history, scarring from previous lung disease, diets etc No of cigarettes you smoke per day is directly related to lung cancer. Unfiltered high tar cigarettes are more harmful and increase the risk of lung cancer in a person than low tar, filtered ones.

Pipe and cigar smokers are more likely to get lung cancer than cigarette or non smokers. And its worth noting that smoking does not only cause lung cancer, it can also be the cause of lip and mouth cancer. Initially lung cancer due to smoking was seen more in men but that now that more women have taken to smoking the ratio is equal. As many women get lung cancer as men.

Filtered Cigarettes with lower tar may be less harmful and reduce the lung cancer risk but that cannot be your excuse for getting lung cancer. Let me share a good news that 15 years after you have stopped smoking your risk of getting cancer is as little as that of a non smoker! Passive smoking also increases your chances of lung cancer but it’s not as bad as active smoking.

Let me go into detail to make my point clear about how time span has a very crucial role to play.  A person smoking 10 cigarettes a day for 20 years is 8 times less likely to get lung cancer than a person who is smoking 20 cigarettes for 10 years.

However long you’ve been smoking, it’s never too late to decide to give it up. The more you smoke the more prone you are getting lung cancer. If you want to give up smoking there are man ways to do it. Will power being the main quality other things follow. A software called No Smoking helps you discover why you smoke and you will learn to identify automatic habits that lead to smoking. You will also not gain weight as you quit smoking.