Smoking And Lung Cancer

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6.1b Analyse The Relationship Between Smoking
and Lung Cancer
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This blog is looking at smoking and it's relation to lung cancer. Lung cancer is can be a primary and a secondary source, primary comes in two forms, non small cell and small cell. Non small is the one that is most common and this is responsible for on average 80% cases of lung cancer (nhs uk web). Small cell is less common and the possibility of this is the remaining 20%, this form is a more aggressive one and this usually spreads quicker. After skin cancer lung cancer is the most common one and there is around 31,000 (nhs uk) new cases discovered each year, this is in England and Wales.
Smoking it the biggest thing to cause lung cancer, in cigarettes there is more than 40 different things and the more you smoke the higher the risk you have of developing lung cancer. There is also greater risk the longer you have smoked, however after a very long period of time from stopping smoking the risk of developing lung cancer drops, when you smoke there is a 90% chance you will develop lung cancer (www.smokinglungs ).
Overall smoking really does cause our lungs a lot of damage and many sources say the same thing that the biggest cause of lung cancer is smoking, so the best way for us to afford lung cancer is not to smoke, we are also at risk of lung cancer if we are around a smoker for long periods of time, as passive smoking can be as dangerous to our health as smoking can be.