Cancer and Tobacco Use: Tobacco Use Causes Many Cancers

Cancer and Tobacco Use: Tobacco Use Causes Many Cancers

November 10, 2016

By: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of cancer and cancer deaths. Forty percent of cancers in the US are linked to tobacco use. According to the latest CDC Vital Signs report, quitting tobacco use at any age can reduce the risk of getting or dying from cancer. Tobacco use can cause not only lung cancer—but also cancers of the mouth and throat, voice box, esophagus, stomach, kidney, pancreas, liver, bladder, cervix, colon and rectum, and a type of leukemia.

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