Every 6.5 seconds someone dies from tobacco use, says the World Health Organization. Research suggests that people who start smoking in their teens and continue for 2 decades or more will die 20-25 years earlier than those who never light up.
The letter, which was published at the time by Dr Duncon's employer, concluded that tobacco "is so hurtful and dangerous to youth...
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15.2% of the teen smokers they studied reported wheezing.
20.4% were wheezing after exercising.
Compare this to 8.5% and 10.7%, respectively, of non-smoking teens.
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Smokers had poorer lung function than non-smokers
"I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer..."An American doctor gave a similar warning the other day:
"We do know, however, that we see more pancreatic cancers in people who smoke and we see more pancreatic cancers in people who are overweight.
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But there is no question that if you want to do all you can to avoid developing a malignancy in the pancreas, do not smoke," Dr. Brown emphasized.
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