More studies confirm smoking cigarettes is deadly
Lost a brother and father to those "coffin nails". Study confirms smoking can lead to 13 different types of cancer and accounts for 1 in 5 deaths either directly or indirectly in the US and cost billions in health care. Part of article showed that in Ohio alone, smoking costs an employee up to $6,000 a year in buying the weed and in related health costs. I would imagine in other countries the rate is even higher.
I remember those last few days visiting my father in the hospital and seeing patients standing outside in the cold with hospital blankets wrapped around them - IV stands beside them dripping fluids into their veins - smoking because the hospital wouldn't allow them to smoke inside the building. When I mentioned this to the nurse she said that she has had patients that had their cancer larynx's removed ask how soon they could resume smoking.
"Two-thirds of smokers will die early from cigarette-triggered illness --
The study of more than 200,000 people, published this week in BMC medicine, found about 67 percent of smokers perished from smoking-related illness. That rate is higher than doctors previously estimated.
Tobacco smoke can boost the risk for least 13 types of cancer--, “measured by the amount of tobacco smoked per day, and with increasing duration of smoking.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/02/26/the-terrifying-rate-at-which-smokers-die-from-smoking/
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