| There are a various risk factors that are linked to lung | | | | themselves, replacing damaged cells with healthy, |
| cancer. The most common known causes are as | | | | normal cells. Your risk of developing lung cancer begins |
| follows: | | | | decreasing almost immediately when you quit smoking. |
| Cigarette Smoking Cigarette smoking is probably the | | | | Every year that you do not smoke, your chances of |
| most closely related link to developing lung cancer. A | | | | developing lung cancer drop further. By the fifteenth |
| person who smokes two packs or more of cigarettes | | | | year, your chances of developing lung cancer are |
| per day has a one in seven chance of developing lung | | | | about the same as those of a person who has never |
| cancer. Those that smoke one pack of cigarettes per | | | | smoked. |
| day have a twenty-five times greater chance of | | | | Secondhand Smoke Also known as passive smoking, |
| developing lung cancer than a non-smoker. In addition, | | | | people exposed to secondhand smoke on a regular |
| those people that smoke a pipe or cigar have a five | | | | basis will have a higher risk of developing lung cancer, |
| times greater chance of developing lung cancer than a | | | | even if they do not smoke themselves. Studies have |
| non-smoker. | | | | shown that those who live with a smoker have a 24% |
| The risk of developing lung cancer increases with the | | | | greater risk of developing lung cancer than most |
| number of cigarettes smoked over your lifetime. | | | | non-smokers. Doctors estimate that about 3000 lung |
| Cigarette smoking damages the cells in your lungs. The | | | | cancer deaths a year are related to secondhand |
| moment you stop smoking, your lungs begin healing | | | | smoke. |