Lung cancer

listen. Cigarettes are huge health risks and kill around 6 million people every year. Cigarettes not only affect those smoking them but they also affect those around people smoking them, this is called second hand smoke. Cigarettes damage your heart, lungs, teeth and kidneys. It is also very difficult to exercise or play any sports for a smoker. Smoking is glorified in movies and popular culture but it is not worth the risk. Cigarettes can make your teeth decay and your clothing smell which…

“Cancer is among the leading causes of death worldwide. As of 2012, there were 14 million new cases and 8.2 million cancer-related deaths worldwide” (Cancer Statistics, National Cancer Institute). Cancer was a very widespread disease during World War I due to the use of mustard gas. Mustard gas was a common war weapon, for it was very cruel and had a high fatality rate; this gas is extremely poisonous and caused a cancer epidemic due to the way it attacked the respiratory system. Exposure to…

deaths than the average crowd at a Major League Baseball game. Secondhand, or passive smoke, is an insidious killer that is harming people, pets and, are environment. It’s of great importance to take note of the fact that second hand smoke can cause cancer. It is just as deadly if one is exposed to it for prolonged periods of time. A smoker should take extreme caution whenever they are engaging in their smoking activities because they owe it to the general public to take care of anyone and…

taller than Hazel, blue eyes, and a huge basketball fan. There’s something different about both of them, they have cancer. Hazel has thyroid cancer and it spread into lung cancer. Augustus has osteosarcoma which caused him to lose his leg. They met at a cancer patient support group at her mother’s behave to make her happy. In the beginning of the book, Hazel is discussing her life with cancer and the pros and cons. She doesn’t meet Augustus until she finally takes her mother’s thoughts and goes…

Although undetected by sight, smell, or taste, this radioactive gas has led to an estimated 20,000 lung cancer deaths each year. Radon is a cancer-causing radioactive gas that can be found outdoors and indoors. It is a naturally occurring gas that comes from the radioactive decay of Uranium, which are found in soil and rock throughout the world. This radon then breaks down into solid radioactive elements which are called radon Progeny. This radon progeny can then attract to air particulates and…

millions America. It is the third leading cause of death in the United States. COPD is described as a group of lung diseases that block airflow and make it hard for a person to breathe. This includes, but not limited to, emphysema, asthma, and even chronic bronchitis. In order to determine if you have COPD, a spirometry test can be performed to determine the amount of air expelled from your lungs. Those that suffer from this describe it as having a shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing and…

the sections that empower air to go into and out of the lungs occasionally contract, bringing on hacking, puffing, and shortage of breath. This is regularly transitory and reversible, yet in extreme assaults, asthma might bring about death. Asthma most ordinarily alludes to bronchial asthma, an aggravation of the aviation routes, yet the term is likewise used to allude to cardiovascular asthma, which creates when liquid develops in the lungs as a complexity of heart disappointment. Over 17…

smoke. “Secondhand smoke is in addition called environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)” (American Cancer Society, 2016). It’s a combination of multiple types of smoke that appear from very strong tobacco. These are ordinary smoke which is smoke breathe out by the person smoking and smoke which we intake from the cigarette, pipe, or cigar where it is lighted from. This type of smoke has an advanced attentiveness of cancer-causing driving forces and is more poisonous than mainstream smoke is. It also…

Mesothelioma, being a deadly form of cancer, ruins the prospects of victims and their families. This varies depending on the concentration of the asbestos dust and fibres in the area but it has been recorded that those who have only been exposed for a couple of months have a chance of obtaining pericardial mesothelioma. About 90% of malignant mesothelioma is asbestos-related. Mesothelioma affects men most due to the high exposure of asbestos in industrial typed jobs. Mesothelioma can be caused…

doesn’t cause alcoholism. Causation describes that one event happens because of a different event or a cause and effect relationship. It is an action or occurrence that can cause another. For example smoking causes an increase in the development of lung cancer, or jumping off of a cliff directly causes great physical damage. Both correlation and causation are important in looking at different aspects of life. For…