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“Anyone who treats cancer will tell you, we hate cigarettes,” he said. “Nationally, lung cancer is the No. 1 cause of cancer death. In fact, it accounts for more deaths than the next-three-common cancers combined – breast, prostate, and colorectal. The vast majority of lung cancer diagnoses – 90 percent in men and 70 percent in women – are associated with smoking.”

According to a 2003 report “Tobacco Control Country Profiles” published jointly by the American Cancer Society, the World Health Organization and the International Union against Cancer, approximately 1.3 billion people worldwide currently smoke cigarettes or other products.

While tobacco use in industrialized countries is declining, it is rising at an alarming rate in the developing world.

“About 35 percent of men in developed countries smoke, compared with almost 50 percent of men in developing nations and almost two-thirds of Chinese men,” according to the report said. “An estimated 4.9 million premature deaths from smoking occurred in the year 2000. … Of everyone alive today, an estimated 500 million people will eventually be killed by tobacco.”

The good news is that smoking rates in Utah are remarkably low.

So low that Donaldson said Lung cancer actually falls behind breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers in Utah.

“It is important to note that smoking is associated with more than just lung cancer,” he said. “It is also a risk factor for cancers of the head and neck, esophagus, pancreas, anus, kidney, bladder, cervix – I can’t even name them all.”

Smoking is also a major contributing cause of cardiovascular disease and chronic bronchitis.

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