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Smoking and Cancer: Correlation or cause?
Over the past 50 years the link and correlation between smoking and cancer has significantly
increased with it being accepted worldwide after developments in the harmfulness of the chemicals
in cigarettes on human body cells particularly in the human gas-exchange system; the lungs
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Smoking has been linked to a range of types of cancer including cancer of the lung, larynx,
oesophagus, mouth and pharynx, bladder, pancreas, kidney, liver, stomach, bowel, cervix, ovary,
nose and sinus as well as some types of leukaemia
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The abnormal cells divide rapidly and form tumours
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However, throat cancer includes the cancer of the larynx, upper mouth and oesophagus
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The risks of smoking were first investigated after a man called Alfred McTear who dies in 1993 due
to lung cancer who, during his last days, tried to sue Imperial Tobacco for half a million arguing that
he was unaware of the risks of smoking
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He outlined at the end of his findings that it was time to stop blaming the
addicted smokers but the tobacco companies that actively promote their products
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This backed up by the Surgeon General which released a
landmark study in 1964 that linked tobacco with potentially fatal health risks, such as heart disease
and lung cancer
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Tobacco companies would publish their own findings for
decades, employing their own scientists to manufacture a debate
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Around the year of 2000, the government made it law for tobacco companies to have a message
saying that there are health risks associated with smoking such as cigarette Smoking may be harmful
to health however after a few years the UK Government felt it was not a strong enough message and
ordered companies to have a more harsh message and pictures of the impacts on the lungs including
excessive cigarette smoking is associated with an increased risk of death from lung cancer
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The main way that smoking causes cancer is by damaging our DNA, including key genes
that protect us against cancer
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Furthermore,

poisons in cigarette smoke can weaken the body’s immune system, making it harder to kill cancer
cells
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6%
higher than in non-smokers
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However, the graph shows the
impacts of smoking on males to be more significant than
females with a much lower number of deaths from lung
cancer
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To conclude, the evidence above clearly outlines there
is strong evidence to suggest that smoking has a
horrendously bad effect on our health with lung cancer
the biggest result of smoking with Tobacco use
accounting for at least 30% of all cancer deaths,
causing 87% of lung cancer deaths in men, and 70% of lung cancer deaths in women
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Therefore it is vital the Government come up with an action plan to aim to drop the demand for
tobacco and reduce the number of smokers whether that is by a tax or new laws
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