Smoking and Lung Cancer

Smoking and Lung Cancer

Introduction

One of the major concerns for the Public Health Service is the increasing death rate resulting because of lung cancer in most parts of the world, and in the United States. Numerous studies have shown that lung cancer is causing more deaths than any other type of cancer, and it is one of the most rapidly increasing forms of cancers in the population of adult males. Statistics have shown that the death rate because of lung cancer among white men in the United States was 3.8 per 100,000 populations, as estimated in the year 1930, ...