Cigarette smokers are not only fatally threatened by lung cancer but also by COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), shows new European study. Most new smokers are the young people and the women.
Data fromt the 2009 European Health Survey about smokers, lung cancer and COPD is worrisome. It shows that the proportion of people who have quit smoking has remained the same. It also shows that the new smokers are the young people and women. This news worries public health officials.
The public health officials from Europe says the smoking addicts not only die from lung cancer, but also from COPD. The disease is lurking in force in smokers. About nine percent of males over 45 die from COPD. Half of those people are smokers.
With two hundred and ten million sufferers in the world the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is now the fifth leading cause of death worldwide. Add to this the cost associated with social service help, hospitalization, sick leave: temporary and permanent and the real cost is astronomical.
The worst part is that if this is crude case, the future is much more black. It is anticipated that in 2030 COPD will be the third leading cause of death.
Although air pollution and fuel use, such as wood and coal, are risk factors that add to the genetic characters themselves, the reality is that almost 90% of the risk of developing the disease comes from smoking.
Few things are as well experienced as the direct relationship between smoking and COPD, thus quitting smoking would be the best way to reduce disease the disease, say the experts.
Smoking is also the leading cause of lung cancer in some European countries, particularly in the Baque country of Spain. There, the cases of females that have started to smoke 25 years ago and now has developed lung cancer has grown by 60 percent. Currently lung cancer is the first cancer among the five most prevalent cancers in Spanish women.
Quit smoking!
Written by Armen Hareyan
Sources: Deia.com
European Health Survey
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