Tobacco Causes Cancer

From the office of Dr Magne, author of Cancer Free For Life.

There is nothing terribly new or exciting about stating that the use of tobacco products increases ones chances of contracting cancer. Most everyone knows that tobacco contains carcinogens, and everyone has been duly warned about tobacco and cancer.

Surprisingly, it is less reported that tobacco usage can greatly increase the chances a user has of contracting cancer of the head, neck, stomach, kidney, pancreas, bladder among other areas.

This isn’t surprising given the fact that the body is one, large, complexly interconnected organism. Anything that enters your blood stream will come in contact with, and have an effect on, every portion of your body.

Although we may have separated out the major “systems” of the body for study intellectually, in reality there is no separation. What happens to a part happens to the whole. To learn more about how disease is created in the body, read Cancer Free For Life.

Metaphorically speaking, cancer is a poorly trained sniper on a rooftop taking aim at the people on the street. This sniper manages to hit one out of every ten targets, which are the chances of the average non-smoker contracting cancer. The actual tobacco products used by the public contain a vast array of carcinogens. Because of these carcinogens, use of tobacco products moves the sniper down to the street and gives him a shotgun.

The chances of getting hit obviously increase.

The published percentages vary a bit, but on average smoking can increase your risk of contracting cancer by between 15 to 20 percent.

The use of tobacco is a phenomenon that is uniquely human. Millions of people continue to utilize a product, on a daily basis, upon which is printed a label that tells them not to use it.

Sociologically, the ongoing use of tobacco is disturbingly interesting. The fact that tobacco companies knowingly include addictive drugs in their products has come under serious public scrutiny over the last decade. It’s been said that it’s easier to quit heroin than it is to quit smoking. So, in many ways, that can explain why so many older people continue to smoke.

The question that needs to be addressed is why younger people continue to start smoking. Certainly, a great number of psychological and sociological trends are at work here. At its root, it seems that a certain percentage of the human population will continue to do things which are known to be dangerously stupid, period.

However, for the purposes of this discussion, it should simply be remembered that every time you use a tobacco product, you’re paying for it with more than the money in your pocket. By increasing your risks of cancer, not to mention a variety of others diseases and conditions, you are literally paying with your life.

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