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Transcript: Healthy lungs without any tobacco inhalation damage The combination of smoking and alcohol consumption causes most laryngeal cancer cases. Last year, an estimated 4000 deaths occurred from laryngeal cancer. Worn out, cancerous lungs from prolonged tobacco inhalation Esophgeal Cancer - Tobbacco use from ciggerettes to smokeless tobbacco are all major contributors to most esophgeal cancer. - About 12,300 of new cases of esophgeal cancer resulted into 12,100 deaths tobacco abuse -A decrease in smoking ciggerettes and smokeless tabacco could prevent an estimated 8000 deaths per year, as well as 30, 000 diagnosed paitents due to oral cancer alone in Canada. Conclusion -Quitting the habit of smoking would adversly increase the quality of your life as a whole. -People won't look down on you for doing it anymore and will in fact be proud that you've quit. -Not only health wise but financially and mentally, knowing that you concured such a huge feat. -And you won't have to live in constant fear of affecting your loved ones with second hand smoke. -Apart from smoking being a disguisting habit which causes harm to ones body, along with the people around the smoker, it is a very expensive habit. On average, if a smoker smokes a 10 dollar pack every day for a year, it will amount to 3640 dollars per year. (10x7days=70$. 70x 52 weeks = 3640$) Cancer Kills -The carcinogens, or cancer causing agents that are found in ciggaretes, initiate cancer development in the body. -Ciggarette smoke, when ingested damages important genes within the body in which control the growth of cells, causing the cells within a persons body to grow at abnormal speeds, growing improperly. -This is the basis of Cancer. - For smoking-attributable cancers, the risk generally increases with the number of cigarettes smoked and the number of years of smoking, and generally decreases after quitting completely. - Smoking a 'light' ciggarete, or smoke with less yield of tar, does not lower your chances of getting cancer. Smoking causes cancer -Lung cancer normally takes many years to develop. Incidence tends to peaks between the ages of 55 and 65 years. The changes in the lung however can begin almost as soon as a person is exposed to carcinogenic chemicals. -When you smoke, not only does it effect you, but also the people around you.Second-hand smoke is what smokers exhale and what rises from an idle burning cigarette. You can see smoke in the air but what may not be so obvious is that there are 4,000 chemicals in the smoke. - 90% of lung cancer happends to people who smoke. - Men who smoke are 23 times more likely to develop lung cancer - Woman who smoke are 13 times more likely to develop lung cancer - Smoking ciggarettes brings on other health related problems such as: oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, bladder, stomach, cervix, kidney and pancreas, and acute myeloid leukemia - Last year, approximately 180, 000 people died from lung cancer, more from smoking related health issues.