How common is lung cancer in people who smoke?

Lung cancer is the health problem most closely associated in people's minds with smoking. And more than 90 percent of lung cancers in the United States occur in approximately 30% of the population who smoke. Smoking is responsible for more than 157,000 deaths from lung cancer annually.

It is the most common cause of death from cancers, accounting for 31 percent of fatal cancers in men and 25 percent of fatal cancers in women. For women, the number of deaths from lung cancer is growing rapidly. Just five years ago, lung cancer was responsible for just 18 percent of the fatal cancers in women.

Since the total number of cancer deaths was approximately the same, the increase in the percentage means that each year, every year, women are experiencing approximately 20,000 additional deaths from lung cancer. The increase in breast and lung cancer in women is directly related to the fact that women started smoking a great deal more about twenty years ago. Because of this increased smoking, women are fast becoming almost equal to men in aging and cancer deaths.

So, it's horrible but true, "You've come a long way, baby," as the Virginia Slims ad says so ironically. For men, the percentage of cancer deaths caused by smoking seems to have peaked and has started to recede in parallel with the decline in smoking in men from its peak twenty-five years ago. Unfortunately, for women in the United States, the peak from smoking, and therefore suffering and dying from lung cancer, still lies ahead.

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