other diseases linked to tobacco use

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C. G.

Updated:05/31/2022 01:31h

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When we hear or read the phrase: to smoke mataLung cancer comes to mind for most. In fact, between 80 and 90% of deaths from this type of tumor, the one that causes the most deaths in Spain, are linked to smoking. But it is not the only serious disease associated with smoking.

Among the pulmonary pathologies linked to tobacco use are Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), chronic bronchitis, emphysema, upper respiratory tract infections, pneumonia, etc.

It is estimated that in Spain Approximately 50,000 people die each year from causes attributable to tobacco.. Smoking is the leading preventable cause of cancer and cancer deaths, and is linked to at least 12 types of cancer: lung, mouth and throat, larynx, esophagus, stomach, kidney, pancreas, liver, bladder, cervix, colon, and rectum, and a type of leukemia, point out from MD Anderson Madrid.

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